| | | The World Health Organization said a record number of cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 were recorded on Sunday around the world for a total of 307,930 in a 24-hour period, the highest number recorded since the start of the outbreak.
New cases numbers were led by India, which counted 94,372 new infections, followed by the U.S. with 45,523 and Brazil with 43,718, according to WHO data. The Indian spike is due to clusters of cases, while the virus is spreading through community transmission in India and the U.S.
There was alarm after President Donald Trump pushed ahead with his first indoor rally since June in a warehouse in Nevada, at which he addressed a packed crowd of supporters, most of whom were not wearing face masks. The decision to hold the event indoors defied the directive of state officials and his own health experts’ guidelines on gatherings. The last indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, was blamed for a subsequent surge of new cases, according to the New York Times. |
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