Sun 06 September 2020:
India overtook Brazil on Saturday as the country with the second highest recorded cases of Covid-19 after the US. The pandemic continued its unprecedented surge in India, with fresh cases close to 90,000 on Saturday, the fourth straight day of record daily rise in infections.
The figures are India’s highest daily spike since the pandemic began.
Infections have reached 4.11 million and the number of fatalities stand at 70,626 with 1,065 additional deaths.
The new figures bring India close to numbers recorded by Brazil, which is currently ranked second in the world with more that 4 million cases.
If the upward trend continues, India is likely to surpass Brazil in infections in the next 24 hours.
Experts say by the end of September this south Asian nation may surpass the US to become the worst-affected country in severity of the pandemic.
India, currently in the midst of the biggest Covid-19 spike seen in any country since the pandemic’s outbreak, has been recording nearly twice the number of daily cases than Brazil and US over the past few days.
Over the past 24 hours 89,690 infections where recorded in the country, taking the taking the total caseload to 41,05,930 a day after crossing the 40-lakh mark, as per data collated by TOI from state governments. This was the fourth peak in daily cases in the past four days.
