India passes five million Covid cases

India’ s confirmed coronavirus infections passed five million yesterday and still testing the feeble health care system in tens of thousands of impoverished towns and villages.

The world’s second-most populous country has added more than one million cases this month alone and is expected to become the pandemic’s worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States, where more than 6.6 million people have been infected. India’ s health ministry reported 90,123 new cases in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 5,020,359 – about 0.35 per cent of the nation’s nearly 1.4 billion people.