Yesterday, India saw its worst day yet in its war against the novel coronavirus as over 75,000 new viral cases were reported in the country.

The South Asian country home to over 1.3 billion people has been devastated with the flu bug for the past several months now. India has been consistently reporting the most number of daily cases among all the nations for the past couple of weeks surpassing even the United States and Brazil in daily counts.

In the last 24 hours, 75,995 new coronavirus cases and 1,017 deaths were reported in India due to the viral disease. According to the latest statistics provided by the website Worldometer, the coronavirus cases have exceeded 3,333,732 in India and over 60,848 Indians have succumbed to the viral infection so far. Around 2,541,192 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration have been harshly criticized by the public and opposition parties for their failure in containing the viral pandemic. With its neighbor Pakistan being one of the success stories of containing the coronavirus infection, the Indian government has been under severe duress and critique for their inability to stop the viral spread in the country. The day when Modi's India reported over 75k new cases, only 482 new cases were reported in Pakistan.