India reported its highest death toll in a month on Wednesday - at nearly 4,000 - after its richest state reconciled its death count with 3,509 previously unreported fatalities, the health ministry said, according to Reuters. Maharashtra, home to the financial capital of Mumbai, has reported 130,753 of the country's 418,480 coronavirus deaths, and added 3,509 earlier deaths to its tally, the federal health ministry said on Wednesday. India's tally of infections stands at 31.22 million, with a death toll of 418,480, according to official data. On Wednesday, the government reported 42,015 new coronavirus infections in the previous 24 hours, health ministry data showed.
