India’s confirmed Covid-19 cases pass 200,000
India has identified another 8,909 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours — the most in a single day since the pandemic began — pushing the nationwide total to 207,615, the country’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said.
More than 5,800 people have died in the country after contracting the virus, the ministry said.
India is the seventh country to pass the 200,000 confirmed case threshold, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The others are:
- United States (1.8 million)
- Brazil (555,383)
- Russia (423,186)
- United Kingdom (279,392)
- Spain (239,932)
- Italy (233,515)
CNN
