MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th November, 2020) India has confirmed 43,082 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 9,309,788, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 135,715 people, with 492 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 8.71 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 12.8 million COVID-19 patients.
A day earlier, India registered 44,489 new COVID-19 cases, with 524 fatalities.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 60.8 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.43 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
