[ad_1] Coronavirus updates: US records highest daily number of pandemic deaths - BBC News BreakBreaking newsClose breaking news SummaryThe United States has more than 3,000 deaths in the last 24-hour period, the highest total in a single day anywhere in the world.The UK's economic recovery slowed in October: it rose 0.4% on the month amid rising Covid casesCanada Joins UK in Approving Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 VaccineSouth Africa, Africa's hardest hit country, enters a second wave of the pandemic with 7,000 new cases on Wednesday.Northern Ireland ministers will meet later, before the end of a two-week shutdown on Friday.The origins of many of the second wave of Covid infections in Scotland began with the summer holidays, a study suggests.There have been 68.9 million cases and 1.56 million deaths worldwide, figures from Johns Hopkins University show.Live reportsRelated stories Morph.toInit.bundles.push(function() { Morph.versions["bbc-morph-lx-stream-v4@3.5.16"]={"bbc-morph-app-bridge":"2.2.0","bbc-morph-classnames":"1.0.2","bbc-morph-cookie-config":"3.0.1","bbc-morph-cs-enriched-post":"1.3.10","bbc-morph-feature-toggle-manager":"1.0.3","bbc-morph-gel-icons":"5.0.7","bbc-morph-gnl-smp-adverts":"1.1.0","bbc-morph-gnl-smp-analytics":"1.1.0","bbc-morph-grandstand":"5.4.5","bbc-morph-image-chef-url-transformer":"2.1.0","bbc-morph-isequal":"1.0.0","bbc-morph-lazysizes":"1.0.1","bbc-morph-lx-adverts":"1.0.8","bbc-morph-lx-commentary-data-paged":"1.5.3","bbc-morph-lx-istats":"1.1.4","bbc-morph-lx-reactions":"3.0.2","bbc-morph-moment-ws-timezone-wrapper":"1.0.7","bbc-morph-news-translations":"2.2.4","bbc-morph-responsive-image-srcset":"3.0.1","bbc-morph-share-tools":"5.1.0","bbc-morph-smp":"7.0.0","bbc-morph-ws-typography-info":"1.0.6","morph-container":"4.0.0","morph-require":"3.0.17","react":"0.14.7","react-dom":"0.14.7"}; !function(e){function t(r){if(n[r])return n[r].exports;var o=n[r]={i:r,l:!1,exports:{}};return e[r].call(o.exports,o,o.exports,t),o.l=!0,o.exports}var n={};t.m=e,t.c=n,t.d=function(e,n,r){t.o(e,n)||Object.defineProperty(e,n,{configurable:!1,enumerable:!0,get:r})},t.n=function(e){var n=e&&e.__esModule?function(){return e.default}:function(){return e};return t.d(n,"a",n),n},t.o=function(e,t){return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(e,t)},t.p="",t(t.s=101)}([function(e,t){e.exports=React},function(e,t,n){"use strict";function r(e,t,n,r,o,a,i,s){if(!e){var l;if(void 0===t)l=new Error("Minified exception occurred; use the non-minified dev environment for the full error message and additional helpful warnings.");else{var u=[n,r,o,a,i,s],c=0;l=new Error(t.replace(/%s/g,function(){return u[c++]})),l.name="Invariant Violation"}throw l.framesToPop=1,l}}e.exports=r},function(e,t,n){"use strict";var r=n(7),o=r;e.exports=o},function(e,t,n){"use strict";function r(e,t){if(null==e)throw new TypeError("Object.assign target cannot be null or undefined");for(var n=Object(e),r=Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty,o=1;o