India records highest single day jump of 9,304 coronavirus cases

India is seventh among the countries worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy

India recorded the highest single day jump of 9,304 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 260 deaths as of Thursday morning taking the total tally to over 217,000 cases and 6,075 deaths. 

India has seen a jump of over 1,000 deaths in less than a week. While it took India more than three and a half months to reach 100,000 cases since its first Covid-19 patient, the increase from a 100,000 to 200,000 cases came in around two weeks as the pandemic continues unabated in India. 

India is seventh among the countries worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil,