India surpassed Brazil with 42,04,614 cases and is now behind the USA which has recorded 6.29 million covid-19 cases. Brazil has registered 4.14 million case.
India passes Brazil, now has world’s second-highest cases.
The number of deaths due to the covid-19 infection has reached 71,642.
India has already been recording more number of fresh cases than Brazil for the last few days.
This is the second consecutive day that the country registered over 90,000 new infections in 24 hours. About 8.82 lakh cases in the country are active (20.9 per cent of the total cases) and the recovery rate stood at 77 per cent this morning.
Over the last week, India had recorded significantly more daily infections than Brazil and the US. Moreover, experts have painted a grim picture of the COVID-19 situation in India saying that unlike the US and Brazil, the country is yet to peak.
Globally, there have been over 2.7 crore confirmed cases of COVID-19. More than 8.8 lakh people have died so far.
