NEW DELHI — India on Thursday recorded more than 75,000 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, marking the biggest single-day increase since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country.

With the country’s health ministry reporting 75,760 new confirmed infections, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached more than 3.3 million. India’s previous highest daily count was 70,488 on Aug. 22.

The ministry also reported 1,023 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of virus-related fatalities up to 60,472.

With 173,195 new cases, the western India state of Maharashtra has the highest number of active cases and 23,089 patients have succumbed to the disease in the state.

With an average of more than 800,000 tests every day, India has scaled up testing per million to more than 27,000, the ministry said.

It also said India’s recovery rate is now around 76 percent with a fatality rate of 1.84 percent.

India has reported the third most cases in the world after the United States and Brazil, and its reported fatalities are the fourth-highest in the world. — Agencies