India Jumps To 6th Spot Among 10 Worst COVID-19 Hit Countries

With the total number of coronavirus cases rising to 2.36 lakh in the country, India on Saturday surpassed Italy in the total number of cases and jumped to the sixth position among 10 countries worst-hit by the novel coronavirus across the globe.

The number of confirmed cases has risen to 2,26,770 and the number of deaths has grown to 6,348. There are active 1.12 lakh cases of COVID-19 in the country with more than 1 lakh cases still active.

India is after the United States, Brazil, Russia, United Kingdom, Spain. Globally coronavirus infected more than 67 lakh people. Nearly 4 lakh people lost their lives since the outbreak had emerged in China last year.

The number of COVID-19 cases in India has been doubling every three weeks. WHO’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, noting India has a population of 1.3 billion, said that the 200,000 reported cases, “look big but for a country of this size it’s still modest”.