Coronavirus: India's big city outbreaks lead to record rise in cases

Country has third highest number of cases in world after 25,000 new infections recorded a day

India has overtaken Russia to claim the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording almost 25,000 new infections a day, mainly clustered in the megacities of Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai.

The total number of cases of Covid-19 in India rose to 697,413 on Monday, after three consecutive days of record-breaking infection increases. Only Brazil, with 1.6 million, and the US, with 2.88 million, have more cases and experts say that the country is still months away from reaching its peak.

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