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- A one-day record of coronavirus cases was reached, the World Health Organization panel showed on Monday.
- The number of cases in one day reached 307,930.
- There have been more than 28,870,000 confirmed cases of choroanvirus and 921,800 deaths, according to WHO figures.
The World Health Organization’s Covid-19 panel showed on Monday that a new record had been reached in one day with 307,930 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.
WHO’s full figures for Sunday showed 307,930 cases were confirmed to the UN health agency during the day, 19,870 more than Saturday’s count.
Confirmed daily cases have only exceeded 300,000 once, when 306,857 were recorded on September 6.
Within each week, the pattern of cases reported to WHO tends to increase towards Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and decrease around Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to WHO figures, there have been more than 28,870,000 confirmed cases of the respiratory disease, while more than 921,800 people have lost their lives, including 5,537 on Sunday.
“Lives and livelihoods have been lost, the world economy is in recession and social and political failures have been exposed,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday via a video link on the European regional committee of the organization.
“We are by no means out of the woods.
“The average daily number of cases in the region is now higher than during the first peak in March,” he said, citing the record of 48,921 confirmed cases in Europe on Sunday.
On Sunday, a total of 132,464 cases were confirmed in the WHO Americas region, followed by 101,119 in Southeast Asia.
14,827 cases were also reported in the eastern Mediterranean, 5,958 in the western Pacific, and 4,641 in Africa.
“Fortunately, the death toll appears to remain relatively low for now,” Tedros said.
“But every death is a tragedy and there can be no room for complacency. If we do not control transmission, more people will lose their lives and there is a real risk of reintroducing so-called blocking measures that have been so costly.”
