New Delhi (NVI): More than 23.8 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and 15.4 million have recovered. More than 8,18,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
In the US, the number of coronavirus infections have surged past 5.77 million while the number of fatalities has crossed 1,78,000 in the country.
Brazil’s coronavirus cases have exceeded 3.6 million while the death toll has climbed past 1,16,000.
Mexico has confirmed 4,916 new cases of the disease and 650 more deaths, bringing its totals to 568,621 cases and 61,450 deaths.
Doctors in South Korea have been ordered to return to work because of the continued surge in coronavirus cases, after they began a three-day strike on Wednesday over government plans to train more medical students.
Australia’s southern state of Victoria reported 149 new cases of coronavirus and 24 deaths in the past 24 hours as it battles a resurgence of the disease.
Turkey recorded its highest number of new coronavirus cases since mid-June. Another 1,502 infections were confirmed on Tuesday taking the official tally over 2,61,000.
China has reported 15 new cases in the mainland – all of them in people returned from overseas. The mainland has not confirmed a domestically transmitted case in 10 days. It also had 14 new asymptomatic cases, which are not included in confirmed cases. The death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.
Gaza entered a 48-hour lockdown after the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the general population. Four cases of coronavirus were confirmed in a single family in a refugee camp.
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