A record number of new COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide in the past 24 hours.
According to the World Health Organization’s website, there were 808,224 cases of COVID-19 reported to them from more than 140 different countries and territories on Sunday, with the United States accounting for nearly half of all new infections.
Sunday’s figure shatters the previous one-day record, which was set on Dec. 18 when 731,264 cases were reported to the World Health Organization.
Canada, meanwhile, reported 6,708 new cases to the global health agency.
Countries that recorded the highest number of new cases in the past 24 hours were the United States, which recorded 402,270 new infections — by the far the most of any country — followed by Brazil with 52,544 new cases and Russia with 28,948 new cases.
The United Kingdom recorded the second-most infections of anywhere in Europe — only Russia had more — on Sunday, reporting 27,052 new cases. It comes after the U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that London and a large part of southern England would be placed under tougher lockdown restrictions following a surge in cases. Health officials in the U.K. also reported the discovery of a newer variant of COVID-19 that they say spreads far faster than other strains of the deadly virus.
Elsewhere, South Africa recorded 10,939 new cases — its highest one-day total since early August — on Sunday. Since November — as has been the case in many countries including Canada, Japan, South Korea, and Panama — infections have climbed dramatically in the African country.
Meanwhile, Australia reported 34 new cases to the World Health Organization on Sunday, its highest one-day total since
The total number of cases reported to WHO currently sits at 75,110,651 while the number of deaths stands at 1,680,395.
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