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India Surpasses Brazil With World’s Second-Highest Virus Cases

Watch: India’s surge in coronavirus infections puts it on track to overtake the U.S. as the worst hit nation. (Source: Bloomberg)

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By Ruth Pollard

September 7, 2020 at 4:05 AM UTC

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India has the world’s second-highest number of coronavirus cases, passing Brazil on Monday to reach more than 4.2 million confirmed infections as the epidemic surges across the South Asian nation.

Now the global virus hotspot, India added the largest number of cases in a day with 90,802 recorded overnight Sunday, according to data released by India’s health ministry. More than 71,000 people have died from Covid-19, making India the third-largest by number of deaths.