The world sees record number of COVID-19 cases in a single day

The WHO reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday, particularly in the United States, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Peru and Qatar.

"We still have a long way to go in this COVID-19 pandemic. In the last 24 hours, 106,000 cases were reported to the WHO, the highest number in a single day since the start of the pandemic," the director-general of the World Health Organization reported.

"Nearly two-thirds of these cases have been declared in four countries . . .