Coronavirus: India's Covid-19 cases cross one million

India added a record number of Covid-19 cases - nearly 35,000 - in the last 24 hours, breaching the one million mark.

It has the world's third-largest case load, after the US and Brazil - the only three countries so far to record more than a million coronavirus cases.

India's active cases account for about a third of its total tally as it has been reporting a high recovery rate and a low death rate from the virus.

But deaths have been rising. At 25,602, they are eighth-highest in the world.

The western state of Maharashtra continues to be the biggest hotspot with the highest case tally - more than 280,000 - among all the states.

But new hotspots are emerging as states in the south - Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh - and in the east - Bihar, West Bengal - record a rapid rise in daily case numbers.