India has become the third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases as the pandemic shows no sign of peaking.
The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million.
The growing caseload comes after the World Health Organization said yesterday that it did not expect widespread immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021.
The WHO has insisted it would never endorse a vaccine that has not been proven safe and effective, over concerns around the rush to develop a jab for the virus.