New Delhi: India over too Brazil on Saturday as the country with the second highest recorded cases of Covid- 19 after the US. The pandemic continued its unprecented surge in India, with fresh cases close to 90K on Saturday, the fourth straight day of record daily rise in infections.

In another grim milestone, Covid- 19 deaths in the country crossed 70K, having risen by morethan 10K in ten days. India’s case count crossed the 41 lakh mark late on Saturday, going past Brazil’s tally of 40, 93, 586 cases at 11 pm, as per Worldometers.info. Brazil’s numbers may overtake India’s when it’s finally tally for Saturday added. However, going by recent trends, India’s case load is expected to break away from Brazil by Sunday.

India, currently in the midst of the biggest Covid- 19 spike seen in any country, has been recording nearly twice the number of daily cases than Brazil and the US over the past few days. Over the past 24 hours, 89, 690 infections were recorded in the country, taking the total case load to 41, 05, 930 a day after crossing the 40 lakh mark as per data available from State Goverments. This was the fourth peak in daily cases in the past four days.

The spike in infections was again led by Maharashtra, which reported as many as 20, 489 new cases on Saturday, its highest single day count so far. Seven other states also reported their biggest daily jump in cases i.e. Uttar Pradesh (6, 692), Kerala (2, 655), Haryana (2, 289), J &K (1, 251), Uttarakhand (950), Tripura (691) and Meghalaya (192). The nationwide death toll from the Covid- 19 on Saturday was 1, 055, taking the total to 70, 606.

This was the fifth straight day of 1K-plus deaths. On an average, there have been over 1K deaths per day in the country over the past ten days. Delhi continued to report a resurgence of the Covid- 19, with 2, 973 fresh infections on Saturday, and the highest count in 67 days.