India crosses 41 lakh tally with highest single-day surge of 90,000 cases —on the verge of becoming the second worst-hit coronavirus nation

• India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people being infected in a day.
  
• The total coronavirus cases mounted to 41,13,811, while the death toll climbed to 70,626.
  
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India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people being infected in a day, while 31,80,865 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 77.32 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 41,13,811, while the death toll climbed to 70,626 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 1,065 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate due to the coronavirus infection has further declined to 1.72 per cent.

There are 8,62,320 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 20.96 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

These are the top 10 worst-hit coronavirus nations:

Country	COVID cases
United States	6,244,970
Brazil	4,123,000
India	4,113,811
Russia	1,017,131
Peru	676,848
Colombia	650,055
South Africa	636,884
Mexico	629,409
Spain	498,989
Argentina	471,806

Source: Johns Hopkins University

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and it went past 40 lakh on September 5.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,88,31,145 samples have been tested up to September 5 with 10,92,654 samples being tested on Saturday.

(with PTI inputs)

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