 "Medics collect Swab sample of COVID-19 patients and walk towards Laboratory at Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital (MMCH), during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Guwahati on Wednesday.")
India is now the ninth-worst Covid-affected country in the world, surpassing Turkey, with over 165,000 confirmed cases, nearly double of China’s, according to the data collated by Johns Hopkins University and the Ministry of Health. In terms of death, India is placed 13th in the world, surpassing China with over 4,700 fatalities.
India added 7,466 cases to its count — a record — in a single day. China has confirmed 84,106 cases and 4,638 deaths from Covid-19 so far.
Experts say cases in India are following a geometric progression as the number of cases being added per day continues to rise.
