After hitting a peak of nearly 98,000 daily cases in mid-September, daily infections have averaged around 30,000 this month. As a result, the gap has widened between India and the United States, the world’s worst affected country with more than 16 million cases and 200,000-plus new infections daily. India reported 25,152 new infections and 347 deaths in the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. India took 30 days to add the last million cases, the second slowest pace since the start of the pandemic. India’s richest state was in dire straits back in September when its daily cases averaged 20,000 and hospitals ran out of beds and oxygen.

Source: Bangkok Post December 19, 2020 08:37 UTC