India recorded the highest spike in the number of cases for the second day in a row. Nearly 17,000 new cases were reported yesterday. Today, more than 17,500 people have contracted the virus in the last 24-hours. With this, the total number of cases in India is just under five lakh.

More than 2.8 lakh people have recovered and more than 15,000 people have died. Across the world, there have now been 9,430,384 confirmed cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, the global death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 482,752

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