A man wearing a face mask travels inside a Delhi metro train, on the first day of the restart of their operations, amid the Covid-19 spread, in New Delhi, India September 7, 2020.
MUMBAI: India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month today, even as new infections slowed, data from the health ministry showed.
The health ministry said 1,133 people had died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest since July, taking total mortalities to 72,775. But new daily cases were at 75,809, the lowest in a week.
India surprassed Brazil yesterday to become the country with the most number of coronavirus cases outside of the United States and has a cumulative caseload of 4.28 million.
