India's Covid-19 Tally Crosses 7.5 Million Mark

SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA - OCTOBER 19: Indian health officials in a Personal protective equipment wait for people to take their samples to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amid the spread of the disease, on October 19, 2020 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. The first case of COVID-19 in India was recorded in January 2020. India currently has the largest number of confirmed cases in Asia and has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States. India's Covid-19 tally has passed 7.5 million, with a spike of 55,722 new COVID-19 cases and 579 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths up to 114, 610. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the number of coronavirus cases is 7, 550,273 including 772,055 active cases (a dip by 11,256 since yesterday) and 6,663,608 discharged migrated cases (rise by 66,399 since yesterday). (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)