India surpasses China tally with 85,000 cases; 11th most affected: Report

India is now the 11th most affected nation in the world, but each one of the top-ten have 100,000 or more cases. The US tops the charts with more than 1.4 million cases

The nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases crossed 85,000 on Friday with more people testing positive for the deadly virus infection from Kashmir to Kerala and from Karnataka to Bihar, even as indications emerged about greater relaxations in the fourth phase of the lockdown beginning Monday to contain economic costs of the pandemic.

Going by the numbers declared by different states and union territories, India has now surpassed China's official tally of 82,933 confirmed Covid-19 cases.

Though some new cases have emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan -- the epicentre of the deadly virus -- less than 100 people