India COVID19
New Delhi: India recorded 1,68,912 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, as per Ministry of Health released data on Monday.
During the same period, 904 people also lost their lives due to the virus.
The total death toll due to the disease now stands at 170179.
There are 1201009 active cases in the country at present.
Global Scenario:
The number of global novel Coronavirus cases has topped 135.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.93 million on Monday, the Johns Hopkins University said.
The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 135,855,351 and 2,934,981, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 31,196,121 and 562,064, respectively, according to the CSSE.
Brazil follows in the second place with 13,482,023 cases and 353,137 fatalities.
The other countries with more than two million confirmed coronavirus cases are India (13,358,805), France (5,119,585), Russia (4,589,209), the UK (4,384,610) and Turkey (3,849,011) the CSSE figures showed.
In terms of deaths, Mexico comes in the third place with 209,338 fatalities.
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