Updated On: 08 September, 2020 12:35 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS

Commuters wait to get their hands sanitised at Rajeev Chowk metro station after DMRC resumed services with curtailed operation of the Yellow Line and Rapid Metro, in New Delhi. Pic/PTI
After breaching single day records of highest Covid cases in the world going past 90,000, India on Tuesday said it has registered 75,809 fresh cases in 24 hours, when it marked the largest spike in deaths in a day with 1,133 new fatalities.
India now is the second worst hit country after the US, with 42,80,442 coronavirus cases since the first was reported on January 30. The US has recorded 63,00,431 cases and 1,89,206 deaths so far, since the virus was first detected in China's Wuhan in December 2019.