Nearly 91,000 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours take India’s tally over 41 lakh; death toll over 71,000

The coronavirus cases in India continued to surge at an unprecendented rate after the reported another single-day spike of 90,802. The Union Health Ministry also informed that 1,016 COVID-19 fatalities were reported during the same.

According to the data available at the Union Health Ministry website, the novel coronavirus has affected 42,04,614 people in India and claimed 71,642 lives so far. Out of the total number of cases, 8,82,542 are active COVID-19 cases in India while 32,50,429 have recovered from the deadly infection, taking the country’s recovery rate to 77.30 per cent.
With this, India’s coronavirus tally has crossed the total COVID-19 tally of Brazil. Now, India is the second worst affected country in the world by the pandemic after the United States of America (USA).