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India Covid-19 cases cross 300,000-mark, death toll at 8,718: Worldometer

India on Thursday went past the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic

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The number of active cases stands at 1,41,842, while 1,47,194 people have recovered and one patient has migrated

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India's coronavirus cases on Friday surpassed the 300,000-mark, according to Worldometers.info website, while the death toll stood at 8,718.
 
Earlier in the day, India recorded over 10,000 new cases and 396 fatalities in a single day for the first time since the outbreak , even as the Centre on Friday asked the states to pay special attention to the emerging epicentres of Covid-19 and undertake stringent containment measures to check the contagion.
 
As the tally increased to 305,951 and the death toll to 8,718 till Friday 9 pm, the Union Health ministry stressed that the doubling time of coronavirus cases