India’s daily COVID-19 cases soared by 103,558 on Monday, the biggest such daily increase, data from the health ministry showed, taking the total to 12.59 million.
The country added 478 new deaths, raising the total to 165,101.
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Of this number, the state of Maharashtra continues to struggle with the virus breaching 50,000 new COVID-19 cases, marking the highest one-day rise since the beginning of the pandemic in India. In total, Maharashtra alone now has over 3 million confirmed cases, as per reports from the Times of India.
As of posting time, data from Worldometers show that India is the third worst-hit country, with 12,589,067 confirmed cases. Of this number, there are 165,132 deaths, 741,799 active cases, and 11,682,136 recoveries.
