Headlines of tonight’s SBS Punjabi news bulletin:
** A 14-year-old boy missing in bushland east of Melbourne found dead...
** The Victorian government considers easing COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne earlier than planned...And
** India now claims to have the highest number of recovered coronavirus patients.
India’s Health Ministry announced today that while 83,347 new coronavirus cases were registered in the previous 24 hours, 89,746 recoveries also took place.
This is the fifth consecutive day when the recoveries have outnumbered new infections, with Ministry Secretary Prashant Bhushan saying India stands first in the world for the number of recovered cases.
The national recovery rate is 81.25 percent, and it contributes to almost one-fifth of the global recoveries (19.5 percent).
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