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The second wave of COVID-19 in India appears to be showing no sign of slowing down. On Thursday morning, the Union health ministry said a total of 200,739 new COVID-19 cases had been reported in the past 24 hours. This is the highest single-day spike in cases ever since the pandemic began. Thursday's COVID-19 tally overtook Wednesday's figure of 184,372 COVID-19 cases.
Thursday's figure takes India's tally of COVID-19 cases to 14,074,564 cases.
India also recorded a total of 1,038 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, the government announced on Thursday. This figure took the total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 173,123.
The total number of active COVID-19 cases now stands at 1.471 million
Multiple states, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, had recorded their highest daily COVID-19 count on Wednesday. Uttar Pradesh recorded 20,510 cases, Delhi reported over 17,000 COVID-19 cases and Karnataka reported 11,265 cases.
This is the fifth straight day India recorded over 150,000 COVID-19 cases and ninth straight day that over 100,000 cases have been reported.
NDTV reported, "While the United States took 21 days to reach the daily count of 200,000 daily cases from 100,000 per day, India reached that grim milestone in just 11 days."
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 200,000 mark on August 7, 300,000 on August 23, 400,000 on September 5 and 500,000 on September 16. It went past 600,000 on September 28, 700,000 on October 11, crossed 800,000 lakh on October 29, 900,000  on November 20 and surpassed the 1 million mark on December 19.
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15/04/2021
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