For the first time ever, the world records 1 million COVID-19 cases within 100 hours

Guwahati: Global coronavirus infections have crossed 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking the first time that there has been a surge of 1 million-plus cases iwithin100 hours.

The first case was reported in China in early January and it took three months to reach 1 million cases. Now, with the world well and truly in the grip of the pandemic, it has taken just four days for the caseload to mount to 14 million cases (from 13 million recorded on July 13).

The United States, have confirmed more than 3.6 million and is still seeing huge daily jumps in its first wave of COVID-19 infections. On Thursday, the United States has reported a daily global record of more than 77,000 new infections.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his followers have returned to normalcy while starting to engage in economic activities and reopening schools despite the surge in cases.

Meanwhile, other hard-hit countries have "flattened the curve" and are easing lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of the novel virus while others, such as the cities of Barcelona and Melbourne, are implementing the second round of local shutdowns.

According to the reports delivered by WHO, the number of cases globally is around triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually.

Notably, the pandemic has now killed more than 590,000 people in almost seven months, edging towards the upper range of yearly influenza deaths reported worldwide. The first death was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China before infections and fatalities surged in Europe and then later in the United States.

It has been reported that in Brazil, more than 2 million people have tested positive including President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 76,000 people have died.

It is to be mentioned that India witnessed over 34,000 fresh infections in 24 hours for the third day, the total number of positive cases in the country crossed 10.39 lakh including 58,692 active cases, 6,53,751 cured/discharged/migrated and 26,209 deaths.

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