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India is to recruit hundreds of former army medics to support its overwhelmed healthcare system, the defence ministry said on Sunday, as the country grapples with record Covid-19 infections and deaths amid angry calls for a complete nationwide lockdown.
Some 400 medical officers are expected to serve on contract for a maximum of 11 months, the ministry said in a press release, adding that other defence doctors had also been roped in for online consultations, Reuters reports.
Wales recorded 54 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 211,827.
Public Health Wales said no further deaths were reported, with the total in the country since the start of the pandemic remaining at 5,552.
