On September 16, local time, according to the Times of India, the Ministry of Health of India notified that the country’s cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia has exceeded 5 million. After the United States, India became the second country in the world to have more than 5 million confirmed cases. The country with the second most confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide.

  India has ranked the world's highest number of new coronavirus cases for several consecutive days.

Previously, Agowal, the former head of the Indian Medical Association, predicted in an interview with Indian media at the end of August that if the current trend continues, India will surpass the United States within six weeks and become the most severely affected country in the world.

  On the other hand, the Ministry of Health of India announced on the 16th that the country has added 1,290 deaths, a record high in a single day. The number of deaths in India has now exceeded 80,000, making it the country with the third highest number of new crown deaths in the world.

  (Edited by Lu Jie)

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]