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India: Total COVID-19 cases exceed 2 million

Coronavirus has been wreaking havoc in India for over six months. The total number of cases has exceeded two million...

Coronavirus has been wreaking havoc in India for over six months. The total number of cases has exceeded two million in the country.

Of late, the cases have been surging in India at an alarming rate. According to the COVID-19 statistics provided by Johns Hopkins University, at least 392,623 cases were reported in the country just in the past week, while 6,007 people died during the period. For the last few days, India has reported the most number of daily cases worldwide, surpassing even the US and Brazil.

The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported 190 days ago on January 30th. Since then, India has reported 2,088,611 confirmed novel coronavirus cases and 42,518 deaths. Only the US and Brazil have reported more cases than India. Global tally of COVID-19 cases stands at 19,381,455 while 721,409 of these people have succumbed to the viral disease.