#1 / #3 highest 24 cases on our radar8 Oct 2020 20:13
Posted at 18:51
BREAKING
WHO reports record 24-hour rise in cases globally
A rise of 338,779 new coronavirus infections have been reported globally in the previous 24 hours, the biggest one-day increase since the pandemic began, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data.
India registered the highest number of new cases with 78,524, followed by 41,906 in Brazil, and 38,904 in the US.
The daily global increase in cases breaks the previous record of 330,340, set on 2 October.
There were also an extra 5,514 deaths reported worldwide on Thursday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 1.05 million, the WHO reports.