India on Sunday became the first country in the world to report more than 80,000 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a single day, as the outbreak continued to grow and set new records.
A total of 80,097 new infections were reported across India on Sunday, taking the nationwide tally to 3,616,747, according to latest news. To contextualise the size of the daily tally, China, where the virus originated in December 2019, has 85,031 infections to date.
After Sunday’s spike, the seven-day average of daily cases in the country stands at 73,318, also a new global record, and taking it higher than the seven-day daily case peak recorded in the United States .
Maharashtra on Sunday recorded 16,408 Covid-19 cases, second in excess of 16,000 and also the second-highest one-day spike, as the tally rose to 780,689. This has pushed the active cases closer to 200,000 at 193,548 cases — 24.79% of the total cases reported so far.
The surge in cases is likely to continue for weeks as some more fresh relaxations are expected to come into force from September first week in the state. Experts are of the view that it may take months for the state to bring down cases.
