At 93,000, cases moving towards all-time peak

A continuing surge in the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the country's daily cases to over 93,000 on Saturday, with deaths crossing 500 for the first time in four months, even as India again began to record the highest number of daily infections in the world. At nearly 89,000, India’s daily cases on Friday were the highest in the world, ahead of the US (70,024) and Brazil (69,662). This was the first day since October last year when India’s cases were the highest in the world,