India posts highest COVID-19 death toll in a month

REUTERS: Reporting the lowest number of COVID-19 cases in a week, India could not clamp down on its daily deaths from the virus as the country reported more than 1,100 people succumbed from the virus on Tuesday.

The health ministry said 1,133 people had died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest since July, taking total mortalities to 72,775. But new daily cases were at 75,809, the lowest in a week.

India surprassed Brazil on Monday to become the country with the most number of coronavirus cases outside of the United States and has a cumulative caseload of 4.28 million.