Over 354,000 COVID cases detected globally over past day

The number of confirmed coronavirus infection cases globally has exceeded 116.52 million, which is an increase of more than 354,000 cases over the past day, Report informs, referring to the WHO data.

The number of deaths has increased by more than 7,000, exceeding 2.58 million.

As of March 8, WHO received information about 116,521,281 infected and 2,589,548 deaths. The number of infected people has increased by 354,629, deaths - by 7,020.

WHO statistics take into account only officially confirmed information on cases of infection and death provided by states.

More than 45 percent of infections reported to WHO over the past day are in North and South America (162,882), followed by Europe (117,265) and the Eastern Mediterranean (33,285).

Most of the confirmed cases of infection were registered in the US – 28,659,480. The US is followed by India (11,229,398), Brazil (10,938,836), Russia (4,333,029), the UK (4,218,524), France (3,836,480), Spain (3,142,358), Italy (3,067,486), Turkey (2,780,417), Germany (2,505,193), Colombia (2,273,245) and Argentina (2,149,636).