India has reported a record daily jump in infections, taking its total number of cases over two million.

India has reported a record daily jump in infections, taking its total number of cases over two million.
It is the third nation to pass that milestone, lagging behind only the United States and Brazil.
With infections spreading further to smaller towns and rural areas, experts say the epidemic in India is likely to be months away from hitting its peak, putting more strain on an already overburdened healthcare system.
And authorities are having to deal with multiple outbreaks across a nation of 1.3 billion people.
The health ministry said there were 62,538 new infections, taking the country’s total to 2.03 million.
India has been posting an average of around 50,000 new cases a day since mid-June, but experts say its testing rate at 16,035 per million people is far too low.
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The government has taken some solace from the relatively low death rate, at about 2%, with 41,585 deaths so far, though that figure will be understated as only deaths of people who have been tested for the virus are counted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a strict lockdown on 25 March, during the initial stages of the outbreak, causing the mass movement of migrant workers from cities back to their villages.
Several states including Bihar in the east, where many migrants returned, have witnessed a surge in cases in recent weeks as the lockdown has been eased to salvage a sagging economy. 
Australia arrests two for planning anti-lockdown protestAustralian police have arrested two men accused of planning an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, an unusual move to stop an event that authorities said would put “lives at risk”.
Police said that the two men in their 40s had been detained after mobile phones and a computer were seized and both would be formally charged with inciting a criminal offence.
The pair were arrested following an investigation into a protest of hundreds of people planned for Melbourne city centre on Sunday, police told said.
The state of Victoria – which includes Melbourne – recorded 450 new virus cases today and has seen record deaths this week, making it Australia’s most serious outbreak.
Police in Victoria have vowed to crack down on anyone breaking lockdown restrictions, issuing 196 fines in the past 24 hours for everything from failing to wear a mask to breaching an overnight curfew or collecting a pizza.
The country of 25 million has so far recorded more than 20,000 virus cases and 255 deaths. 
US death toll soars as global virus cases top 19 million
Daily coronavirus deaths in the US surged to a three-month high of over 2,000 yesterday and the number of cases passed 19 million globally, pushing many nations to further ratchet up restrictions in the battle against the pandemic.
The world’s hardest-hit country, the United States, has seen a major coronavirus resurgence since the end of June, adding 2,060 deaths in 24 hours alone, a tracker by Johns Hopkins University showed.
Mexico’s official toll has soared above 50,000 dead and the continent of Africa has hit one million confirmed cases, with more than half in South Africa, which has the fifth highest number of infections in the world, after the US, Brazil, India and Russia.
At least 19,000,553 cases and 712,315 deaths have been registered worldwide, figures compiled by AFP from official sources at midnight showed, driven by surges in Latin America and India.
Europe remains the hardest-hit region worldwide with more than 200,000 fatalities since the virus first emerged in China late last year.
Many nations are seeing new outbreaks, forcing local or citywide lockdowns and other quarantine measures.
Officials are blaming increases in many instances on overcrowding in clubs and social events.
The new virus outbreaks are forcing officials into an uncomfortable trade-off between public health and the need to bring economies back to life.