COVID-19 CASES. Pedestrians walk past St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York, the United States, July 4, 2020. The Covid-19 cases in the US topped 2.8 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday reported 212,326 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day increase since the pandemic broke out.
The biggest increase was reported in the Americas region with 129,772 new cases, said the WHO, adding that nearly half of the new cases were recorded in the United States and Brazil, with 53,213 and 48,105 new infections, respectively.
The Southeast Asia region recorded the second largest surge with 27,947 new cases and 534 deaths over the past 24 hours, it added.
The number of Covid-19 cases in the US topped 2.8 million on Saturday, reaching 2,808,003 as of 10:33 a.m. (1433 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, the US death toll reached 129,476, according to the CSSE.
The state of New York reported the most cases and the highest death toll in the country, standing at 395,872 and 32,137, respectively. Other states with over 100,000 cases include California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois and Massachusetts, the CSSE data showed.
The number of recoveries from more than 11.1 million Covid-19 cases across the globe has now passed the 6 million mark while the death toll is over 526,000, also according to the data of US' Johns Hopkins University. (Xinhua with reports from Anadolu)
