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With Nearly 700,000 COVID-19 Cases, India Is Third Worst-Hit
India has overtaken Russia with the world’s third-highest number of COVID-19 cases, at almost 700,000, the latest data showed on Monday.
The report says the COVID-19 outbreak shows no sign of slowing.
Health ministry data showed over 23,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in the previous 24 hours, down slightly from Sunday’s record increase of almost 25,000.
There have been almost 20,000 deaths in India since the first COVID-19 case was detected there in January.
India is now the world’s third worst-affected country, behind only the U.S. and Brazil.
It has seen eight times the number of COVID-19 cases as China that has a similar-sized population and is where the virus originated in late 2019.
Officials said they had reversed a decision to reopen the Taj Mahal, India’s most famous tourist attraction, in the city of Agra, 200km southeast of New Delhi, following a spate of new cases in the area. (Reuters/NAN)
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