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Cases of infection with the new coronavirus have surpassed 7.76 million across the world, and the death toll is inching close to the 430,000 mark, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Some 7,766,625 people have been infected and 429,732 others have lost their lives worldwide since the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in China late last year.
Out of the global caseload, some 3,698,227 people have recovered.
The largest numbers of confirmed cases are reported in the United States, Brazil, and Russia. The highest numbers of fatalities have been registered in the US, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
Europe has been witnessing a rise in the number of people contracting the virus over the past couple of weeks, as lockdown measures have been relaxed in most of the countries across the continent.
Latin America, regarded as the new epicenter of the virus, has Brazil and Peru at the top of its list of countries with the highest cases.
The following is the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic from around the globe:
Ukraine registers record high for third consecutive day
Ukraine has recorded its highest daily count of new coronavirus infections for the third day in a row, more than double the counts earlier in the month.
The Ukrainian Health Ministry reported 753 new cases on Saturday, compared with 683 the previous day.
Ukraine was recording fewer than 350 new cases a day in early June.
The total number of confirmed infection cases in the European country stands at 30,506 and deaths at 880.
Germany’s confirmed cases pass 186,000
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rose by 247 to 186,269, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases on Sunday.
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