India Crosses 35 Lakh COVID-19 Cases, Sees World Record; Other Top Stories
India is the third worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic in the world after the United States and Brazil. The country has been recording the highest surge in cases recorded in a single day for the last 26 days.
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India on Sunday became the first country in the world to report more than 80,000 new cases of the coronavirus in a single day, as the outbreak continued to grow and set new records, Hindustan Times reported. The Union government is working on at least five distinct ways, ranging from free vaccines to guaranteed supply, in which it can help its immediate neighbours as well as countries in West Asia, Africa and even Latin America, officials familiar with the plan said on condition of anonymity.
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With a record surge of 80,785 fresh coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 35 lakh-mark on Sunday, just a week after it crossed 30-lakh mark, The Asian Age reported. Three terrorists and a counter insurgency specialist of Jammu and Kashmir were killed in an encounter in Srinagar's Panthachowk area overnight, officials said.
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Telangana on Sunday, for the first time, acknowledged that its much-touted claim that asymptomatic cases of COVID-19-- in which people do not require any medical care--dominate the disease in the state have been wrong all along, Deccan Chronicle reported. The first phase of the Census and the National Population Register (NPR), scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of pandemic.
