India's Covid-19 cases jump from 2 lakh to 3 lakh in 10 days as it records worst daily spike

India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 cases, then in another fortnight it reached the grim milestone of two lakh cases. It has now become the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with a caseload of 3,08,993, according to coronavirus statistics website Worldometer. However, the Health Ministry said on Friday the doubling time of coronavirus cases has improved to 17.4 days from 15.4 days.