COVID-19 pandemic: over 200,000 cases in India, over 30,000 dead in Brazil

A record number of COVID-19 cases, 8,909, has been documented in India in the past 24 hours, the republic’s Health Ministry informed on Wednesday. Consequently, the total number of infections in the country surpassed 200,000. Currently, India is the main hotbed of the virus in the Eastern hemisphere, TASS reports.

Meanwhile, in the Western hemisphere, Brazil has recorded the highest number of daily deaths from the virus, 1,262, with the total death toll since the onset of the epidemic surpassing 30,000. Brazil comes second in the world by the number of COVID-19 cases and fourth in the world by the coronavirus death toll.

The US remains at the top globally by the number coronavirus cases and deaths with 1.81 mln cases and over 105,000 virus-associated fatalities.

According to the latest statistics, over 6,468,700 people have been infected worldwide and more than 382,000 deaths have been reported. In addition, so far, over 3,078,900 individuals have recovered from the illness across the globe.