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    A nurse prepares to collect a swab sample at the Covid-19 test centre at Brussels Airport in Belgium. EPA
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    Surgical face masks and hand sanitiser gel are pictured on September 14, 2020 at the start of the school year at the Luigi Einaudi technical high school in Rome. AFP
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    A pupil waits for her temperature to be checked at the entrance of a private school in Harare, Zimbabwe. AP Photo
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    A staff member checks the body temperature of an elementary school pupil, on the first day of school in Pristina, Kosovo. EPA
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    Patients wait at a testing site for Covid-19 in Nice, France. Reuters
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    A worker draws markings on the ground for social distancing at a school in Lahore. AFP
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    A motorist drives past coronavirus-themed murals painted on pillars of a flyover in Noida, India. AFP
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    TraceTogether tokens are being distributed to residents at Jalan Besar Community Club, as the government speeds up contact tracing efforts to curb the spread of the Covid-19 in Singapore. Reuters
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    A model wearing a mask gets her make-up done backstage prior to the Italian fashion designer Laura Biagiotti's spring-summer 2021/22 collection show, in Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio city council square. AP Photo
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    Costumed royal guards perform for tourists at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea. AFP
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    Demonstrators take part in a rally organised by workers of Belgian public health amid the coronavirus outbreak, in central Brussels, Belgium. Reuters
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    People wait in long queues to get a Covid-19 test at the Northcote Covid-19 testing facility in Auckland, New Zealand. Getty Images
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    An aerial view of the crowded Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. EPA

World

WHO reports record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases

The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil

Reuters

September 14, 2020

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The World Health Organisation reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the tally rising by 307,930 in 24 hours.

The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency's website. Deaths rose by 5,537 to 917,417.

India reported 94,372 new cases, followed by the United States with 45,523 new infections and Brazil with 43,718.

The United States and India each reported over 1,000 new deaths and Brazil reported 874 fatalities in the past 24 hours.

The previous WHO record for new cases was 306,857 on September 6. The agency reported a record 12,430 deaths on April 17.

India leads the world in new cases reported each day and set a global record last week with 97,570 cases reported in a single day, according to a Reuters tally.

In some parts of India, medical oxygen is becoming hard to find as total cases exceed 4.75 million. Only the United States has recorded more cases at 6.5 million. Covid-19 infections are still rising in 58 countries, including surges in Argentina, Indonesia, Morocco, Spain and Ukraine.

New cases are falling in the United States and are down about 44 per cent from a peak of more than 77,000 new cases reported on July 16. Cases in Brazil are also trending downward.