India on Saturday went past Spain to become the fifth highly affected country in the world in terms of confirmed cases of COVID-19. On that day, fresh infections in the country crossed 10,000 for the first time with.
India also reported 297 deaths on Saturday, the highest single-day toll so far. With this, the country has reported 6,939 deaths owing to the virus, translating to a fatality rate of 2.8 per cent.
India’s tally of coronavirus cases stood at 2,46,549 late on Saturday night, having overtaken Spain’s count of 2,41,310. Above India on the list are the US (19,06,060 cases), Brazil (6,14,941 cases), Russia (4,58,102 cases) and the UK (2,86,294 cases).
India can take solace from the fact that the death toll is far lower than Brazil, Spain and the UK at the same stage of cases.
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