(Reuters) – The World Health Organization reported that a record has accumulated in international coronavirus instances for the time in a row, with overall expansion to 259848 in 24 hours.
According to a daily report, the largest buildings reported on Saturday arrived from the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa. WHO’s past record for new instances was 237,743 on Friday. The number of deaths increased to 7,360, the largest increase in a day since May 10. Deaths averaged 4,800 consistent with July, compared to an average of 4,600 consistent with The Day of June.
The total number of international coronavirus cases exceeded 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters count, marking a new step in the spread of the disease that has killed some 600,000 people in seven months. This increase means that one million instances have been reported in less than a hundred hours.
WHO reported 71,484 new in the United States, 45,403 in Brazil, 34,884 in India and 13,373 in South Africa.
India became Friday the third largest country in the world to register more than one million instances of the new coronavirus, only the United States and Brazil. Epidemiologists say India is probably still in months after peaking.
Cases in Brazil crossed the 2 million mark on Thursday, doubled in less than a month and added about 40,000 new instances per day. A patchwork of state and municipal responses has been well maintained in Brazil in the absence of a highly coordinated federal government policy.
The United States, which leads with world with over 3.7 million cases, has also tried to curb the outbreak at the state and local levels with only limited success.
Writing by Lisa Shumaker; editing by Jonathan Oatis
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