June 27, 2026 04:37 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Fresh paper leak rocks India: Maharashtra TET postponed a day before exam, over 4 lakh aspirants affected | Pune fort murder case: Siya Goyal's brother says family would have called off marriage if she had objected | Donald Trump gets a road named after him in India, says 'Thank You!' | Fresh setback for Gautam Adani? US judge asks DoJ to justify dropping criminal charges | Ram Mandir Trust chief Champat Rai resigns as alleged donation siphoning row escalates | Ram Mandir fund row deepens: 8 arrested days after BJP called allegations 'false narrative' | 'Who tied the hands of CBI?': Calcutta HC on RG Kar case; victim's mother, now BJP MLA, says she is 'deeply disturbed' | Construction comes to a standstill at nearly 700 Kolkata projects after Taratala warehouse tragedy kills 15 | World Cup shocker! Ecuador stun Germany 2-1, storm into Round of 32 | Iran-US conflict: Cargo vessel hit near Strait of Hormuz, UN agency pauses evacuation operations
Covid-19
Image Credit: UNI

India reports biggest single-day Covid-19 spike with over 77,000 cases, toll crosses 61,000

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2020, at 04:28 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: India, which has been battling Novel Coronavirus since late January, on Friday witnessed the biggest spike in Covid-19 cases with the report of over 77,000 cases in the last 24 hours.

With 77,266 new cases, India's Covid tally has now touched 33,87,500.

The country of 1.3 billion people has now 7,42,023 active cases, the second highest in the world after the United States.

The Covid toll in the vast country has touched 61,529 as 1,057 patients have succumbed to the disease in 24 hours between Thursday and Friday mornings.

The Union Health Minister has said the fatality rate is lower in India due to the "strategic implementation" of the government's approach to tackle the virus.

However, several medical experts have warned that India's poor health infrastructure might get overwhelmed if the infection rate massively increases.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.