Covid-19 Factoid: Pandemic curve still on ascent, India overtakes Brazil

India's death toll crosses the 70,000 mark with the steepest increase in active cases in a day on September 7

The global count of coronavirus cases is now at 27.3 million, of which more than 7 million are currently active. There have been more than 893,000 deaths due to the virus globally, while over 19.4 million people have successfully recovered from the infection. The US and India together account for almost half of all active cases in the world.

India’s reported cases have now crossed 4.2 million, rising by at least 80,000 each day now. Almost 21 per cent or 882,542 cases are currently active. India’s recovery is still at 77.3 per cent, with over 3.2 million successful recoveries.