Number Of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In India Surpasses 8 Million - Ministry Of Health

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th October, 2020) India has confirmed 49,881 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 8,040,203, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.

The death toll from the disease has reached 120,527 people, with 517 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 7.3 million people have recovered in India since the start of the epidemic.

India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 44.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.17 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.