A health worker sprays disinfectant on the luggage of migrant workers and laborers at border with Uttar Pradesh state in Ghaziabad, India, on March 29, 2020. Yawar Nazir/Getty Images
NEW DELHI—India’s number of coronavirus cases passed 600,000 on Thursday with the nation’s infection curve rising and its testing capacity being increased.
The 19,148 new cases reported in the past 24 hours raised the national total to 604,641, with nearly 100,000 of them in the past four days.