COVID-19 cases top 200,000 for new daily record
More than
200,000 new cases of the coronavirus were reported yesterday, July 4, the
highest ever for a 24-hour period.
The World
Health Organization (WHO) says there were 212,326 new COVID-19 cases for the
24-hour period ended early Saturday, the first time the infection figure
crossed 200,000.
An increase
in cases in the Americas pushed the new record in a week that saw cases top
163,000 every day.
The WHO said
the US and Brazil account for just over 60 per cent of all new cases, followed
by Southeast Asia which has 12 per cent of daily infections. The US and Brazil,
which have had the most infections and deaths since the virus was first
identified some 7 months ago, account for almost a half of new cases globally.
There are
approximately 11.3 million cases of the COVID-19 globally, according to the John
Hopkins University virus tracker.
