Coronavirus live news: India reports global one-day record of over 90,000 cases

Reuters and the AP are reporting that India has now overtaken Brazil as the second worst-affected country worldwide, with both outlets saying that India’s cases now number more than 4.2m, after more than 90,000 cases were confirmed in a single day.

The Guardian relies on the Johns Hopkins University figures, and these, while reflecting the 90,000 number in the daily counts, still show India has having 4,113,811 cases, just shy of Brazil’s 4,137,521.

Either way, it looks very likely that India will overtake Brazil this week.

Brazil’s daily case figures are currently around 50,000.

Mainland China reported 12 new Covid-19 cases for 6 September, up from 10 a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Monday.

The National Health Commission said in a statement that all new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, marking the 22nd consecutive day of no local infections.

The commission also reported 17 new aymptomatic infections, unchanged from a day earlier. China does not count symptomless patients as confirmed cases.

The total of confirmed Covid-19 cases for mainland China now stands at 85,134. The death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has criticised Victoria’s roadmap out of coronavirus lockdown, arguing the same standards would put Sydney under curfew, AAP reports.

The state government’s “safe and steady” roadmap to recovery will see Melbourne continue under strict curfew and lockdown until the end of September. Most restrictions on trade will remain until at least late October, while other rules will stay in place until the end of November.

Mr Morrison wants restrictions lifted quicker, but conceded Victoria would have the final say.

“The plan that was outlined yesterday, I hope, is a worst-case scenario,” he told reporters in Canberra on Monday.

The prime minister vowed to interrogate the plan and demanded state authorities show him detailed modelling underpinning the strategy.

“Under the thresholds that have been set in that plan, Sydney would be under curfew now,” Mr Morrison said.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews rejected that claim, saying there had not been widespread community transmission in the state of New South Wales, home to Sydney.

More on the UK schools that have confirmed coronavirus cases.

Three schools in Teesside have confirmed cases of coronavirus as infections in parts of the north-east of England continued to grow quickly.

Redcar and Cleveland borough council said on Sunday that a positive case had been recorded at St Benedict’s RC primary school in Redcar.

The local authority said the school would remain open and that parents had been provided with advice.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 814 to 250,799, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Monday.

With no new deaths reported, the death toll stayed at 9,325, the tally showed.

India has confirmed 90,632 coronavirus cases in 24 hours, a global high for the number of infections recorded in a single day.

India has 4,113,811 cases in total, and has recorded 70,626 deaths.

The staggering total takes the number of coronavirus cases worldwide past 27m, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government figures.

The true number of cases worldwide is likely to be significantly higher, due to differing testing rates and definitions, delays and suspected underreporting.

India now has the fastest growing Covid-19 infection rate in the world, and is only 100,000 cases behind Brazil, the second worst-affected country in the world.

The south Asian nation is on the brink of overtaking Brazil (4,137,521), with experts predicting it will pass the US (6.2 million).

The China Daily reports that China will require all passengers arriving from India to present a negative coronavirus test prior to boarding, staring in one week’s time: