India confirms new global daily record of new coronavirus cases

India has reported on Sunday more than 90,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, a global daily record, data from the federal health ministry showed.

There were 90,632 new infections in the 24 hours to Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data, while the number of deaths surged by 1,065 to 70,626.

The country is set to overtake Brazil on Monday as the second most affected country by total coronavirus infections and will be behind only the United States, which reported 6.4 million cases and around 193,000 deaths.

The total number of coronavirus infections in India has reached 4.1 million and around 3.2 million affected people have been recovered so far, the government data said.

According to medical experts, India is seeing a second wave of the pandemic in some parts of the country, and that case numbers have risen due to increased testing and the easing of restrictions on public movement.

Starting from Monday, the government will partially restore metro train services in the national capital of New Delhi.

Randeep Guleria, the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, said the pandemic will not finish this year as the virus has spread from big cities to other parts of the country.

The number of cases could continue to increase before the curve flattens out, Guleria said in an interview with India Today TV.