India records 38,772 new COVID cases as tally crosses 9.4 mn

India’s Covid-19 tally on Monday climbed to 9,431,691 after 38,772 infections were recorded in last 24 hours. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday interact with teams developing Covid-19 vaccine at Gennova Biopharma, Biological E and Dr. Reddy’s, via videoconferencing. On Saturday, PM Modi had visited vaccine development centres at Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Pune.

Globally, the global caseload of Covid-19 has crossed the 63 million mark and is currently at 63,064,506, as per a worldometers tally. The tally also shows that nearly 14.7 million people have succumbed to the virus while more than 43 million have defeated it. The United States, India, Brazil, Russia and France, in that order, are the five worst-hit countries. Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina and Colombia are next on the list.