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India records world's biggest single-day spike

31 August 2020
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2020-08-31 11:25

India has registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the worst single-day spike in the world, as the government continues to further ease pandemic restrictions nationwide.

The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 948 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 63,498. India now has the fastest-growing daily coronavirus caseload of any country in the world, and has reported more than 75,000 infections for the fourth consecutive day. Sunday’s surge has raised the country’s total virus tally to over 3.5 million. India now conducts nearly 1 million tests every day, compared with just 200,000 two months ago.

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