At 1,340, India records highest Covid deaths in a day

There were 845,408 fresh cases recorded across the world on Thursday, just 16 short of the peak of 845,424 reported on January 8, as per worldometers.info. Of these, India accounted for 216,902 cases, around 26% of the total. Brazil, with the world’s second-highest tally of daily cases on Thursday, was not even close to half of India's count at 80,529.