India's coronavirus death toll passes 100,000 with no sign of an end

A health worker collecting a nasal swab sample from a resident during a medical screening for the Covid-19 in Mumbai on Saturday (Oct 3). Deaths from the coronavirus in India passed 100,000 on October 3, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world's second most populous country. - AFP

BENGALURU/NEW DELHI, Oct 3 (Reuters): India's death toll from the Covid-19 (coronavirus) rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476. India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world.