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No other country has recorded as much infection in a single day as India.
So far 4.65 million Indians are infected with corona, making India the second most infected country in the world after the United States, which has more than 6.4 million cases. In the last week alone, India registered 1 million infected.
So far, 77,768 Indians have died as a result of the coronavirus, according to Worldometers.
DEATH OF KORONA: An Indian woman mourns the death of her husband in a crematorium in India.
Photo: Anupam Nath / AP
192,121 new corona cases in two days
On Friday, September 11, 96,551 new cases of infection were registered in India. This is the highest number ever recorded in a country in a single day. On Saturday 95,570 were registered.
The western Indian state of Maharashtra is the hardest-hit part of India and the province in the world, with more than a million infected registered on Friday night, Reuters writes.
IN 2ND PLACE: India is now the second most infected country in the world after the United States: the infection is spreading in rural areas where there is little access to medical care.
Photo: Anupam Nath / AP
If the state, which is also the richest in India, had been a country, they would have competed with Russia, which has the fourth highest number of infections globally.
“I am very disappointed with the pandemic situation in India,” Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan, who has been closely following the COVID situation in India, said on Twitter.
Most of those infected are registered in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
MASSIVE TESTING: Health workers collect evidence at a health center for leprosy patients in Ahmedabad, India.
Photo: Sam Panthaky / AFP
At first, the outbreak in India was concentrated in large cities. The number of cases of infection registered in smaller cities and in rural areas is currently increasing.
