India's COVID-19 cases jump from 2 lakh to 3 lakh in 10 days

Saturday, 13 June 2020Newsdesk

Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark on Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said.

New Delhi, 13 June 2020

As per news report of PTI, India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 cases, then in another fortnight it reached the grim milestone of two lakh cases. It has now become the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with a caseload of 3,08,993, according to coronavirus statistics website Worldometer. However, the Health Ministry said on Friday the doubling time of coronavirus cases has improved to 17.4 days from 15.4 days.

Source -ptinews.com