Surpassing Russia, India becomes 3rd worst-hit COVID-19 country

Guwahati: With a constant increase in COVID-19 cases, India is now the third worst-hit country in the world, only after US and Brazil.

According to information from the Union health ministry on Monday morning, India, now, stands at 6,97,413 COVID-19 cases, among which 24,248 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours. With this, India overtook Russia which has 680,283 reported cases of the highly contagious virus.

Currently, US is leading the number of confirmed cases with 28,88,729 cases, followed by 16,03,055 cases in Brazil, according to the map by John Hopkins University.