COVID-19: Over 80,000 lost battle in India as tally breaches 49 lakh

India has lost 80,776 people to the *Coronavirus* to date, Health Ministry data revealed on Tuesday that also showed a spike of 83,809 new cases in the past 24 hours.

With 1,054 deaths India now has a toll that is barely 5,000 short of total Covid-19 cases reported in China, the ground zero of the virus that turned into a...