WHO reports record one-day rise in global coronavirus cases, up over 338,000

📆 10/8/2020 8:49 PM
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GENEVA (REUTERS) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday (Oct 8), with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours led by a surge of infections in Europe.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GENEVA - The World Health Organisation reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday , with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours led by a surge of infections in Europe.Global deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million.The agency reported a record 12,393 deaths on April 17.India reported 78,524 new cases, followed by Brazil at 41,906 and the United States with 38,904 new infections, according to the WHO, whose data lags the daily reports by each country.

Infections in the United Kingdom have reached record levels with over 17,000 new cases reported on Thursday. France's new daily Covid-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day on Thursday with new measures to curb the outbreak expected.

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