India has seen its coronavirus cases spike by a record amount as deaths also mounted even as the country loosens lockdown restrictions. However, ministers are warning that will still not be enough to deal with the spiralling number of cases. The western state of Maharashtra remains the most-affected in India, accounting for 139,010 cases - around a third of the total. India now has the fourth-highest number of coronavirus cases anywhere in the world, having leap-frogged Britain's total on June 12. The US still has the most cases in the world at 2.3million, followed by Brazil with 1.1million and Russia with 606,043.

Source: Daily Mail June 24, 2020 11:33 UTC