Hundreds of more people tested positive on Tuesday for the deadly coronavirus infection across India with an outsized number of them have returned from other states or from abroad, whilst officials said India's death rate has been very low and it's taken for much longer here for the tally to hit the one-lakh mark than many other countries.

The Union Health Ministry said the entire number of confirmed cases has reached 1,01,139 and therefore the price has risen to three,163. This marked a rise of nearly 5,000 cases and 134 fatalities during a 24-hour period.

More than 39,000 patients have recovered too, still leaving over 59,000 active cases within the country -- which is that the seventh-largest globally after the US, Russia, Brazil, France, Italy, and Peru.

The Health Ministry said that for each one lakh population, there are 7.1 coronavirus cases in India thus far, as against 60 globally.

The health ministry said the data suggest 45,25,497 COVID-19 cases had been reported worldwide till Monday, which tantamounts to 60 cases per lakh population.

The US, with 14,09,452 cases of the infection thus far, records 431 cases per lakh population. while the UK reports 494 cases per lakh and Italy 372.

Officials also cited data about India having taken 64 days for the count of confirmed cases to extend from 100 to at least one lakh, which was quite double the time taken by countries just like the US and Spain. consistent with the info sourced from the health ministry and Worldometers, the coronavirus infection cases increased from 100 to 1,00,000 within the US in 25 days, while it took 30 days for the cases to succeed in the 1 lakh-mark in Spain.

It took 35 days in Germany, 36 days in Italy, 39 days in France, and 42 days within the UK for the coronavirus infection cases to rise from 100 to 1 lakh, respectively.

The war of words between the Uttar Pradesh government and Congress party escalated on Tuesday after leader Priyanka Gandhi asked the state to permit permission for 1,000 buses to ferry migrants.

After two days of back and forth, UP's Additional Chief Secretary (Home & Information) Awanish Awasthi agreeing to require a charge of the buses at the Delhi-UP border itself.

But the row reignited hours later when the UP government said the Congress list of 1,000 buses contained license number of other vehicles. Also, many buses within the last didn't have a legitimate fitness certificate and insurance papers.