Covid-19 Factoid: India is doubling its tally at double the global pace

While Brazil has added its eighth lot of 100,000 cases in just 3 days, in India Punjab stares at a second wave of Covid-19 infections

The global count of confirmed coronavirus cases is now at 7.6 million, and death toll at 424,362. About 3.8 million patients have recovered from the infection so far. The US, which alone has over 2 million cases, is followed by Brazil, Russia and India – in that order.

India is at the fourth spot in the world by number of confirmed cases, at over 300,000. Of these, 141,842 people have recovered so far, and 8,498 patients have died. Maharashtra, the most affected state in India, is nearing the 100,000 mark in total cases. Among the most affected states with more than