India has 10 million COVID cases and rising.
Its rigid containment protocols have failed to prevent the virus from spreading, NDTV reported Monday.
The world's second most populous country registered 25,000 cases a day over the past week - falling from a peak of nearly 100,000 new cases daily in September. India is the second country after the U.S. to reach the number.
The health crisis had been easing in India as the U.S. saw a rise in new cases and reported more than 200,000 cases a day in recent weeks. India is preparing to vaccinate its 1.4 billion people next year.
The U.S., with a population a quarter the size of India's, has been registering 200,000-plus new infections daily in the past few weeks - 10 times as many as India. India's death rate is also considerably lower.
India health ministry data says 29,691 recoveries were reported in the past 24 hours. The difference in new recoveries exceeding new infections improved the recovery rate to 96% Sunday. India's total number of active and recovered cases are 3,05,344 and 95,80,401, respectively.
India's economy - until last year the fastest growing in the world - saw gross domestic product fall a record 25% year on year in the quarter to June followed by a 7.6% contraction in the September quarter.
India hasn't approved a vaccine but several pharmaceutical companies have applied for emergency use authorization - including Oxford-AstraZeneca which has teamed up with the country's Serum Institute, the biggest vaccine maker in the world.
