India has reached a grim milestone as it surpasses one million cases of the coronavirus after recording nearly 35,000 new infections in the last 24 hours, making it the world’s third worst affected country.

The nation lifted the lockdown on its 1.3 billion residents last month.

Health authorities recorded the highest daily increase in cases globally since the outbreak of the virus with more than 237,000 new infections.

One million cases were recorded worldwide in less than 100 hours.

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