The country’s health authorities reported that the total number of people infected with the new coronavirus has exceeded nine million.
According to Worldometer, India is the second country in the world with the most cases of Covid-19, followed by Brazil, about to reach six million infections. The United States of America lead the table with more than 12 million cases.
However, there has been a downward curve in the number of daily cases in India. This decline has been steady for weeks.
In the last 24 hours, the Indian Ministry of Health recorded 45,882 contagions and 584 deaths. The number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 132 thousand.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,350,275 deaths resulting from more than 56.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the news agency France-Presse (AFP).