New Delhi:
Coronavirus Live updates: With a record high of 9,304 patients in a single day, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India reached 2,116,919 on Thursday, while the number of deaths from the disease increased to 6,075 with 260 new deaths, according to the ministry. Union Health.
India ranks seventh among the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic after the United States, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy.
The health ministry said the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 1.06.737 until 8 am Thursday.
The country has now registered more than 8,000 new cases for the fifth consecutive day, according to government data.
A total of 1.04107 patients have recovered from the disease in the country so far, with 3.804 of them recovering in the past 24 hours.