With 86,432 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India’s coronavirus tally crossed the 40 lakh mark. The country has reported over 10 lakh cases in the last 13 days. The total number of recoveries has crossed 31 lakh, according to data from states and union territories.

According to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday morning, India witnessed a single-day spike of 86,432 infections, taking the country’s caseload to 4,023,179 while the death toll climbed to 69,561 with 1089 people succumbing to the disease in 24 hours. The country has 846,395 active cases as of now.

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The Indian Council of Medical Research said, that 47,738,491 samples were tested up to September 4 and of these 1,059,346 samples were tested on Friday. A total of 70,073 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours.

India crossed the 20 lakh-mark on August 7 and the 30 lakh-mark on August 23. India’s COVID-19 cases jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days. It took 16 more days to race past 30 lakh and 13 days more to cross the 40-lakh mark.

It took 110 days for the COVID-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh post.

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India continues to be the third worst-affected nation after the United States and Brazil. While the US has reported over 6.3 million COVID-19 cases with over 191,000 deaths, Brazil has reported over 4.09 million COVID-19 cases and over 126,000 deaths.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization on Friday said it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 till the middle of next year. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said that none of the vaccines in the advanced trials have shown “clear signs” of efficacy, which is at least 50%, sought by the global health body.

The global COVID-19 cases zoomed past 26.4 million. More than 8.7 lakh people have died due to the infection so far.