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Covid-19 Factoid: India is now the third most-affected country in Asia

Brazil adds more than 15,000 cases in a day while Maharashtra has the highest infection rate in the country and India continues to have an upward trajectory

Health workers conduct thermal screening of passengers who have arrived from Delhi by a special train at Howrah station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Kolkata
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Health workers conduct thermal screening of passengers who have arrived from Delhi by a special train at Howrah station, during the ongoing Covid-19 nationwide lockdown, in Kolkata

Jyotindra Dubey New Delhi
The global tally of coronavirus infections currently stands at 4,654,991, with more than 300,000 deaths. Growth in daily new cases is still on the upward trajectory, oscillating between 70,000 to 100,000 new cases per day for the whole of April. However, the death toll has seen a marginal decrease since its peak of 8,000 plus deaths in a single day in mid-April. 

In India, the case count has now crossed 85,940. Till now, 2,752 people have died, while 30,153 patients have managed to beat the virus. Growth in cases in India has not shown signs of decline yet. 

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