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India coronavirus cases surge to 3.6 million
A Congress party activist is detained by police during a protest demanding postponement of admission tests to medical and engineering schools amid the spread of Covid-19, in Ahmedabad, India August 28, 2020. u00e2u20acu201d Reuters pic

MUMBAI, Aug 31 — India reported 78,512 new novel coronavirus infections today, slightly fewer than its record set the previous day when it posted the biggest, single-day tally of infections of any country in the pandemic.

Yesterday, India's total of 78,761 new cases exceeded the previous record of 77,299 in the United States on July 16, a Reuters tally of official data showed.

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India, the world's second-most populous country, has been posting the highest single-day caseload in the world every day since August 7, exceeding the tallies of both the United States and Brazil.

At 3.62 million total cases, India is fast catching up to these two countries in terms of cumulative caseload, but it has relatively lower death rate.

India's deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, went up by 971 in the past 24 hours, taking the tally to 64,469, the health ministry said. — Reuters

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