New Delhi:

India has now taken the third spot in the list of nations worst hit by coronavirus. The country logged 6,90,396 cases on Sunday evening, according to data from state governments, overtaking Russia, which had 6,80,283 as per the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in US. India is now preceded only by Brazil and the US. Brazil has over 15 lakh cases and the US has more than 28 lakh.

For the second straight day, India added a record number of coronavirus cases on Sunday. In its daily morning update, the health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours — the biggest daily spike since the first case was detected in late January. The surge took the number of deaths to 19,268.