NEW DELHI — India’s number of reported fatalities from the coronavirus has crossed 50,000 after 941 new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours.

With a total of 50,921 reported deaths, India now has the fourth most reported fatalities from the virus in the world, behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico.

India’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases also crossed 2.6 million on Monday after a spike of 57,982 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry. India is behind the United States and Brazil in total reported cases.

August has seen a big spike in fatalities with more than a quarter of the country’s total coronavirus deaths coming in the past 17 days.

In terms of active coronavirus cases, the Maharashtra city of Pune in western India does have the highest number in the country with more than 41,000 patients.

Only Delhi is ahead of it. Pune has recorded 3,200 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours pushing the total tally over 103,000. Mumbai has around 128,000 COVID-19 cases. Delhi is leading the chart with 152,000 coronavirus cases. Chennai has 116,000 coronavirus cases.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, India’s top medical research body, said that more than 731,697 samples were tested for the virus on Sunday. India has conducted nearly 30 million tests so far.

India’s fatality rate is less than 2%, according to the health ministry. — Agencies