India’s confirmed coronavirus caseload surpassed 8 million on Thursday with daily infections dipping to the lowest level this week.
India’s trajectory is moving toward the worst-hit country, the US, which has over 8.8 million cases.
The Health Ministry reported another 49,881 infections and 517 fatalities in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 120,527.
Life in India is edging back to pre-virus levels with shops, businesses, subway trains and movie theaters reopening and the country’s third-largest state of Bihar with a population of about 122 million people holding elections.
But health experts warn that mask and distancing fatigue is setting in and can lead to a fresh wave of infections, The Associated Press reported.
India saw a steep rise in cases in July and added more than 2 million in August and another 3 million in September. But it is seeing a slower pace of coronavirus spread since mid-September, when daily infections touched a record of 97,894 with the highest number of deaths at 1,275.
According to the Health Ministry, more than 7.3 million Indians have recovered from COVID-19.
