The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world sees a third consecutive daily record high in the number of new confirmed cases.
Nearly half of Saturday’s new cases were registered in the WHO’s Europe region, which logged a one-day record high of 221,898 cases, The Guardian reports.
•An official from China’s Xinjiang health commission said that 137 new asymptomatic cases have been detected in the region.
•The United States saw 83,718 new cases reported nationally on Saturday.
•The prime minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte announced a raft of new restrictions and warned that the country’s escalating coronavirus infection rate was already having ‘a worrying impact’ on hospitals.
•Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has declared a new nationwide state of emergency.
•The number of new coronavirus cases in the Netherlands has risen by more than 10,000 in 24 hours.
•In Indonesia, the health ministry reported 3,732 new coronavirus infections, and 94 deaths, bringing the totals to 389,712 cases and 13,299 deaths – the highest totals in south-east Asia.
•In Hungary, there were 3,149 new cases of coronavirus reported on Sunday, the highest single-day tally and jumping above 3,000 for the first time.
Anano Nikoladze
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