India reports record daily jump of 95,735 COVID-19 cases
10 September, 2020
India reported record jumps in new COVID-19 cases and deaths on Thursday (Sep 10), taking its tally of cases past 4.4 million, health ministry figures showed.
In the last 24 hours, 95,735 new infections were detected, with 1,172 deaths accounting for the highest single-day mortality figures in greater than a month, to push the toll beyond 75,000.
Infections are growing faster in India than somewhere else on the globe and america may be the only nation worse affected.
As the epicentre of the pandemic shifts to India, there is no sign of a peak in the world’s second most populous nation. As bars reopened on Wednesday for the very first time since lockdown, it really is adding more cases everyday than any other country has since the pandemic started in the very beginning of the year.
It is also recording more deaths than any other country - typically more than 1,000 daily deaths going back two weeks.
The Americas still account for more than half of all fatalities worldwide due to high death counts in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador. India’s fatality rate is just about 1 %, while Brazil and the United States have mortality rates of around 3 per cent, in line with the world average.
An average of a lot more than 5,600 persons die everyday from COVID-19, according to Reuters calculations predicated on data from the last two weeks.
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