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India accounts for every fifth new corona case in the world

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 4/15/2021 11:35:26 AM

New Delhi, Apr 14 On average, India now accounts for the highest daily number of coronavirus cases in the world, data from the last seven days show. More than one in every five confirmed Covid infections globally each day are from India, compared to one in ten reported in Brazil in the last week. That way, India has surpassed Brazil in the world tally of coronavirus infections, stepping up to be the second hardest-hit country in the world. With a seven-fold growth in daily new cases within a month, India trails only behind the U.S. in terms of total infections as of Tuesday. India reported 1,61,736 new infections on April 13, pushing the total to 1,36,89,453. The number of known Covid deaths rose by 879, bringing the overall fatality tally to 1.72 lakh. However, Brazil’s Covid death toll is more than double at 3.5 lakh in comparison to India so far. Cases in India have been skyrocketing since February. Data show that the country has, on average, recorded over 1.43 lakh cases every day in the last seven days of the current month. In March, India reported little more than 20,000 infections in the same.