COVID-19
India’s daily COVID-19 infection rate now close to 100,000
India’s COVID-19 cases passed the 4.7 million mark Sunday after it recorded more than 94,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, health ministry figures confirm.
India recorded a daily increase of 94,372 new coronavirus cases. This was the fifth straight day it reported over 90,000 new cases – adding more than one million new infections in less than two weeks.
The total now stands at 4,754,356 with a daily total of 1,114 deaths. The total number of deaths is 78,586.
India media reports confirmed Home Minister Amit Shah was readmitted to a hospital in New Delhi late Saturday.
He tested positive a few weeks back, was then hospitalized and discharged two weeks ago.
Fears are growing in India however, that the number of cases could surpass that of the US by the end of September. Already India is the second-worst affected country in the world, after the US, which has recorded 6.5 million cases.
