In what can be termed as a bad news, India has now overtaken Italy to become the sixth worst affected country after the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in India rose to 2.35 lakh yesterday, data from America’s Johns Hopkins University showed.
India had crossed China, where the virus emerged late last year, in terms of cases for the ninth spot just a week ago.
The Union health ministry clearly pinpoints that the number of Covid-19 cases in India has risen to 226,770 and the death toll is at 6,348.
According to Johns Hopkins data, the US has the most number of infected people in the world with more than 1.8 million Covid-19 cases. The US has 18,80,703 infections and 1,08,496 deaths. Of these, 485,002 people have been cured of the infection.
The epidemic in Italy, the most-affected country in Europe, has killed 33,774 people and infected 2,34,531 people. In Spain, 240,978 people have been infected and 27,134 people have died.
