New Delhi (NVI): More than 26 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and nearly 8,63,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some 17.2 million people have recovered.
In the US, the number of infections have surpassed 6.1 million while the death toll has crossed 1,85,000 in the country.
The United States has said it will stop paying its dues to the World Health Organization, a day after it said it would not participate in the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX) , a global vaccine development and distribution project.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s coronavirus cases are nearing 4 million while the number of fatalities have climbed past 1,23,000.
The state of Victoria, in Australia’s southeast, has reported 113 new cases of coronavirus and an additional 15 deaths.
South Korea has reported 195 new cases of coronavirus. That’s the lowest since August 17.
Peru has announced that it will resume international flights and reopen its borders to a limited group of countries from October 1, after months of coronavirus lockdowns.
Turkey is seeing the second peak of its coronavirus outbreak due to “carelessness” at weddings and other social gatherings, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, amid a rapid rise in the number of daily cases and deaths.
The number of new COVID-19 in Turkey cases rose by 1,596 to 273,301 in the last 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data, while the death toll from the virus rose by 45 to 6,462.
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