Coronavirus: India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases

India has registered more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising its total above that of Brazil.

The country now has the second highest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. It has reported 71,642 deaths, the third highest in the world.

The increase in reported infections came primarily from five states.

The increase comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions of jobs when the virus struck in March.

Over the past seven days, India’s case burden has galloped, totaling more than 75,000 infections a day.

More than 60% of active cases come from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India.

Cases have also started to rise in the capital Delhi, with more than 2,700 infections recorded on Thursday, the highest city in more than two months.

An increase in Covid-19 in many rural areas has also led to an increase in the numbers.

The virus has affected a remote tribe in the Andaman Islands of India, with 10 members of the Greater Andamanese testing positive in the last month.

The increase in cases is also partly a reflection of the increase in testing: the number of daily tests performed across the country has risen to more than a million.

Although India has a low death rate from the disease, almost 1,000 deaths have been recorded every day across the country for the past seven days.

In early August, India became the third country in the world to exceed two million cases.

India entered a strict lockdown in March in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the numbers of which were only in the hundreds at the time.

It began to come out of it in phases in June to promote economic activity, even as cases continued to increase.

The pandemic and the lockdown caused massive disruptions in economic activity during the quarter.

India’s economy contracted 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, the worst decline since the country began publishing quarterly data in 1996.