Sunday, 19 July 2020

Global COVID-19 infections surpass 14 million: WHO

Moscow [Russia]: The coronavirus infections globally has increased by 166,735 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of positive cases above 14 million on Sunday, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Saturday’s total was a record of some 259,000 cases.

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On Sunday, the global total of COVID-19 cases grew to 14,043,176.

The death count stands at 597,583 people, with 4,496 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, as per the WHO dashboard.

ICMR Senior scientist Nivedita Gupta said, "The number of tests has increased, on an average, we are testing more than 2.6 lakh of samples per day. We hope to see a further rise by the use of the antigen test"

The Americas are leading with 7,376,748 cases.

WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. (Sputnik/ANI)

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