The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours yesterday.
The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency's website. Deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million.
India's total coronavirus cases rose by 70,496 in the last 24 hours to 6.91 million this morning, data from the health ministry showed.
Deaths from Covid-19 infections rose by 964 to 106,490, the ministry said. India's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the US and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.