WHO records record spike in daily coronavirus cases - over 581,000

More than 581,000 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been recorded globally in the past day, bringing the total number of infections to 48.53 million, which hit a new record-high number of single-day cases in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Friday, TASS reports.

According to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related fatalities increased by over 8,000 to climb to 1.23 million.

As of 19.46 Moscow time on November 6, as many as 48,534,508 coronavirus cases and 1,231,017 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 581,679 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 8,899.

Up to now, a daily surge of 557,467 cases recorded on October 31 was a record high number of infections. The WHO statistics are based only on officially confirmed data provided by countries.