India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million cases of the new
Coronavirus, behind only the
United States and
Brazil, as infections spread further into the countryside and smaller towns.
Given India's population of around 1.3 billion, experts say, one million is relatively low - but the number will rise significantly in the coming months as testing increases, further straining a healthcare system already pushed to the brink.
The pandemic has surged in the country in recent weeks as it spread beyond the biggest cities, pushing
India past
Russia as the third-most-infected country last week.