On Sunday, India set a new virus record when it reported 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, according to health ministry figures, passing the United States for the world's highest single-day rise, reports AFP. India has reported a total of 3.46 million coronavirus cases, behind the United States and Brazil in terms of total caseload. But it has reported higher single-day case rises than both those countries for almost two weeks. India's Covid-19 death toll rose by 1,021 to 62,550, data from the federal health ministry showed. On Friday, lawmaker H. Vasanthakumar from the country's main opposition party Congress became the latest high-profile figure to die from Covid-19.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 30, 2020 07:18 UTC