India reports record daily cases

India on Sunday (July 5, 2020) recorded its highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases as well as fatalities, with 24,850 fresh infections and 613 deaths in the last 24 hours. It was the fourth straight day of record rise in infections as more than 23,500 cases were reported on July 4 and July 3 and over 22,000 the day before on July 2, Report says, citing RIA Novosti.

India’s coronavirus tally stands at 697, 413 which includes 2,44,814 active cases, 4,09,083 cured/migrated cases.

India on Sunday surpassed Russia to become the third worst-hit nation, with the number of cases standing at 6,90,396, according to covid19india.org. Russia has reported 6,80,283 cases, as per the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) tracker. India is now preceded only by Brazil and the US, who have recorded 2,841,124 and 1,577,004 cases respectively.

According to the Ministry of health of India, 253,287 people receive treatment in the country, 424,432 recovered (15,350 per day), while 19,693  died (425 per day).