COVID-19
India’s COVID-19 caseload now over six million mark
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India’s confirmed coronavirus tally has bypassed the six million mark with another 82,170 cases reported in the past 24 hours.
The health ministry reported that the COVID-19 caseload was now at 6,074,703.
At least 1,039 deaths were also recorded in the same period, taking total fatalities up to 95,542.
New infections in India, the world’s second-most populous country, are currently being reported faster than anywhere else in the world and are expected to surpass the US tally, which is at 7.1 million, within the next few weeks.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, almost one in every three new infections reported in the world and one in every five reported coronavirus deaths came from India.
