India registered a record jump of 8,909 novel coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,07,615 today, while the toll rose to 5,815 with 217 more deaths, the Health Ministry said.
The number of active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rose to 1,01,497 and 1,00,302 people have recovered. Around 48.31% of the patients have recovered so far.
India is now the seventh among the worst-hit nations by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy.
India has been registering more than 8,000 cases for the fourth consecutive day. India's first COVID-19 case was detected in Kerala on January 30, while the tally took 110 days to reach the one-lakh mark on May 18.