Despite dropping from the headlines, Covid-19 continues to spread unabated throughout much of the world. After recording more than 183,000 new cases in a single day, global infections surged past nine million.
Sunday’s crop of 183,000 new cases was the single worst daily figure since the outbreak began, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. The surge, driven by new infections in Brazil and India, as well as an uptick in the United States and China, brought the total number of infections worldwide to over nine million. More than 471,000 people to date have died as a result of the virus.
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