Coronavirus: India’s COVID-19 caseload crosses 42-lakhmark with record single-day spike of 90,802 cases

 With the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, India overtook Brazil to become the second worst-hit country in the world.

India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 42 lakh with a record 90,802 people being infected in a day, while 32,50,429 people have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 77.3% on Monday (September 7), according to the Union health ministry data.

The total number of coronavirus cases mounted to 42,04,613, while the death toll climbed to 71,642 with 1,016 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.70%.

There are 8,82,542 active cases of the infection in the country which comprises 20.99% of the total caseload, the data stated.
 

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh are the worst-hit states. These five states also reported the highest number of new cases in the last 24 hours.
 

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and it went past 40 lakh on September 5.
 

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,95,51,507 samples have been tested up to September 6 with 7,20,362 samples being tested on Sunday.
 

With the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, India overtook Brazil to become the second worst-hit country in the world.
 

The United States, with more than 6 million cases, remains the worst-affected country.