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India overtakes Russia to become third worst virus-hit country

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Published: 05:26, 6 July 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
India overtakes Russia to become third worst virus-hit country

With four consecutive days of record highs in new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), India on Sunday went past Russia in total infections to become the third biggest hot spot of the virus, ranking only behind the US and Brazil.

The country reported 24,422 new cases and 421 new deaths on Sunday, taking the total number of infections to 697,284 and fatalities to 19,700.

India recorded the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after the United States and Brazil, according to the data released by John Hopkins University.

The United States was the worst-hit by coronavirus pandemic. The deadly novel virus infected 2,852,807 people in the US. The death toll related to COVID-19 infection stood at 129,718 in the country. The COVID-19 tally in Brazil zoomed to 1,577,004.

India added a record number of coronavirus cases on Sunday. According morning data released by the health ministry, the country registered nearly 25,000 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. This was the biggest daily spike since the outbreak started.

The country was under the nationwide lockdown since the last week of March to curb the virus spread. Several relaxations were made in the last three months to restart the economic activities.

However, school, colleges, gyms, swimming pools were shut to avoid the spread. The international flights and metro rail have been suspended since in the last week of March.

Maharashtra, the worst-hit state by COVID-19 pandemic, reported over 2.06 lakh cases. At least 6,555 new coronavirus cases were detected in the last 24 hours. The state reported 151 deaths today, taking the fatalities in the death toll to 8,822.

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