India has recorded a global one-day record of more than 90,000 positive coronavirus cases, taking the country past Brazil as the second most infected country in the world, with 4.2m confirmed cases.

 

印度新冠肺炎单日新增病例突破9万例，创下全球单日确诊病例纪录之最，确诊病例总数达420万例，超过巴西，位列全球第二。

 

On Sunday India recorded 90,802 new cases and 1,016 deaths. The worst affected¹ state continues to be Maharashtra, home to the financial capital, Mumbai. It has had nearly a quarter of the country's total infections, and on Sunday it reported a record 23,350 new cases.

 

In the capital, Delhi, the city's metro² rail system reopened on Monday morning, despite the city having a five-day rolling average of cases over 2,500. The reopening comes more than five months after the service was closed because of Covid-19.

 

"We have deployed³ police force at every metro station for crowd management and to ensure that people wear face masks and follow norms of social distancing," Atul Katiya, joint⁴ commissioner⁵ of police told the Indian news agency, ANI.

 

The metro in Lucknow, capital of India's most populous⁶ state of Uttar Pradesh, also reopened on Monday after a five-month closure.

 

India's economy has been devastated⁷ by the coronavirus pandemic, contracting nearly 24% in the three months to June, its worst performance since records began in 1996.

 

Despite its high number of cases, the country's death toll⁸ is just over 71,000, and according to the ministry⁹ of health, the case fatality¹⁰ rate was down to 1.72% on Sunday.

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