Coronavirus cases surpassed 48.65 million across the globe on Thursday, according to the worldometer tally.
According to the data, the death toll from the virus climbs to 1,234,013 while the total caseload counted 48,651,535 as of Thursday night.
The US has the highest case tally in the world at 9.4 million and highest death toll at 233,651.
A fall surge of Covid-19 -- the one experts warned for months was likely -- seems to be in full effect, as the United States surpassed 100,000 new daily cases for the first time on Wednesday.
That staggering number comes less than a week after surpassing more than 9.0 million confirmed cases, which is more than any other country.
As cases are on the rise across the globe, as numerous other countries tighten restrictions and some prepare for more lockdowns.
Meanwhile, doctors carrying out a research to get a better understanding of "long Covid," a syndrome in which patients suffer ongoing symptoms for months, by studying the lungs of people who have died from Covid-19.
Scientists leading the research said they found persistent and extensive lung damage in most cases and also found some unique characteristics of the virus, which may explain why it is able to inflict such harm.
Mauro Giacca, a professor at King's College London who co-led the work, told Reuters his research team found no overt signs of viral infection or prolonged inflammation in other organs, while they discovered "really vast destruction of the architecture of the lungs," with healthy tissue "almost completely substituted by scar tissue."
The research team analysed samples of tissue from the lungs, heart, liver and kidneys of 41 patients who died of Covid-19 at Italy's University Hospital of Trieste between February and April 2020.
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