India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, while the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 47,000.
Infections grew by 66,999 on Thursday from a day earlier to reach a total of nearly 2.4 million to date, India’s health ministry said.
The country, with the world’s biggest case load behind the United States and Brazil, has now reported a jump of 50,000 cases or more each day for 15 straight days.
Also, Brazil on Wednesday registered 55,155 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 1,175 deaths, the health ministry said.
Brazil now has 3,164,785 confirmed cases and 104,201 deaths.
