India Reports Over 2,000 New COVID-19 Deaths, Locks Down Chennai

India reported added more than 2,000 COVID-19 fatalities, reaching a total of 11,903 deaths on Wednesday.

Volunteers from the Social Democratic Party of India carry an abandoned body of a victim who died from the CCP virus during a burial at a graveyard in Chennai, India, on June 16, 2020. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images

India reported its highest leap so far in the country’s COVID-19 death toll after adding more than 2,000 fatalities, reaching a total of 11,903 deaths on Wednesday.

The large increase came after two Indian states revised their death tolls and included 1,672 unreported fatalities. Of the 2,003 newly added deaths, 331 were reported in the last 24 hours.