For 1st Time World Records 1m Coronavirus Cases in 100 Hrs

Global coronavirus infections reached 14 million on Friday, according to the Reuters report, with a rise of 1 million cases happening for the first time in fewer than 100 hours.

The first case was registered in China at the beginning of January, and it took three months to hit 1 million instances. It took only four days to reach 14 million cases out of the 13 million recorded on July 13, reports Reuters.

Of more than 3.6 million reported cases, the United States already experiences major regular jumps in the first round of COVID-19 infections. The United States recorded a single global high of more than 77,000 fresh infections on Thursday, while Sweden registered a total of 77,281 cases after the start of the pandemic.

Amid increasing reports, there is a rising cultural division in the country regarding wearing masks to delay the spread of the virus, a practice that is regularly taken in many other countries.

US President Donald Trump and his supporters opposed the full-throated approval of masks and advocated for a return to regular economic life and the re-opening of schools in light of recent events.

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 a second round of local shutdowns.

The number of cases globally is around triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organisation.

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 then surged in Europe and later in the United States.

The Reuters tally, which is based on government reports, shows the disease is accelerating the fastest in the Americas, which account for more than half the world’s infections and half its deaths.

In Brazil, more than 2 million people have tested positive including President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 76,000 people have died.

India, the only other nation with more than 1 million incidents, has seen an total of almost 30,000 fresh infections a day over the last week.

On Friday, those countries were the major forces behind the World Health Organization, announcing a historic one-day rise in global coronavirus cases of 237,743.

In countries with limited testing capacity, case numbers reflect only a proportion of total infections. Experts say official data likely under-represents both infections and deaths.