India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world

On Monday, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced 24,248 new coronavirus cases recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the national total to 697,413 cases.

With the new figures, India surged past Russia's 680,000 total cases to become the third worst-hit nation globally.

Only the US, with 2.8 million cases and Brazil, with 1.6 million, have more confirmed cases, according to data by John Hopkins University.

July 06, CNN

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