India has registered more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, which is more than the total number of Brazil.
The country now has 4,204,613 confirmed cases, the second highest in the world. It killed 71,642 people, the third highest in the world.
The increase in reported infections came mostly from five states.
The rise comes as the government continued to lift sanctions to boost the economy, which lost millions of jobs when the virus struck in March.
For the past seven days, India's case load has been increasing by more than 75,000 daily infections every day.
More than 0% active cases are coming from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India.
The capital, Delhi, has also seen an increase in cases, with more than 2,700 infections reported on Thursday, the highest in the city in more than two months.
In many rural areas, the number has also increased due to the upheaval of Kovid-1.
The virus has struck a remote tribe on India's Andaman Islands, with 10 members of the Greater Andamanese tested positive in the past month.
The increase in cases is also a reflection of the partially increased increase in testing - the number of daily tests performed across the country has exceeded one million.
Although the death rate from the disease is low in India, about 1000 deaths have been reported daily from across the country in the last seven days.
India became the third country in the world to pass two million cases in early August.
India went into a severe lockdown in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus, numbering in the hundreds that followed.
It began to ease in phases in June to boost economic activity, although cases continued to rise.
Epidemics and lockdown led to major disruptions to economic activity during the quarter.
India's economy has shrunk by 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, the worst recession since the country began releasing quarterly data in 1996.
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