India reports global daily record of new coronavirus cases

Addis Ababa, September 6, 2020 (FBC) -India has recorded more than 90,000 cases of the new coronavirus, a global daily record, according to data from the federal health ministry.

There were 90,632 new cases in the 24 hours to Sunday, according to the data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, while the number of deaths rose by 1,065 to 70,626.

The country is set to pass Brazil on Monday as the second-most affected country by total infections and will be behind only the United States, which has 6.4 million cases and nearly 193,000 deaths.

Source: Aljazeera