Global coronavirus cases increased to 1,224,938 Sunday with more than 66,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States, according to a tally provided by www.worldometers.info at 8.30 pm local time, report agencies.
Italy has the highest official death toll with 15,362 fatalities.
Spain follows with 12,418, the United States is on 8,503, France 7,560 and Britain 4,313.
Spain saw its third consecutive daily decline in deaths from the virus, recording another 674 fatalities on Sunday, a fall of 135 from Saturday
A day earlier, Italy cheered after seeing its number of intensive care cases drop for the first time-from 4,068 on Friday to 3,994.
The United States has the world's highest number of known cases of COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. More than 306,000 people have tested positive in the United States and over 8,300 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
New York state, epicentre of the US outbreak, reports 630 new deaths in one day, its largest 24-hour spike.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio issues an emergency plea for volunteers, estimating the city will need 45,000 more medical personnel to fight the pandemic through April and May.
With over 1.2 million people confirmed to be infected, the virus is also putting massive pressure on healthcare services in nations both rich and poor which are struggling to find enough staff and equipment.
Despite Trump's bleak warning for the United States, there were glimmers of hope in hard-hit Italy, ground zero for COVID-19 in Europe, and in Spain.
On Saturday, Trump warned that the United States was entering "a time that's going to be very horrendous" with "some really bad numbers."
"This will probably be the toughest week," he said at the White House. "There will be a lot of death."
But he stressed that the world's largest economy-where over 8,500 people have died from the virus-cannot remain shut down forever.
Over 47,000 global deaths have been recorded in Europe, with Britain reporting a new daily high in fatalities, taking the overall toll to 4,300.
The pandemic has hammered the global economy, with businesses hit hard as people are forced to stay indoors.
There was, however, some encouraging news from Europe and also from Iran.
Italy, which has registered over 15,000 deaths, cheered after seeing the number of intensive care virus cases drop for the first time on Saturday.
Even some of the most cautious Italian health officials seized on the figures as evidence that the tide may be turning in the deadliest disaster the country has faced since World War II.
Spain, which is under a near-total lockdown, saw a third successive daily fall in coronavirus-related deaths with 647 fatalities, taking its total to over 12,400.
Although the number of new cases also slowed, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced an extension of a lockdown until April 25.
Iran's new cases of coronavirus have dropped for the fourth consecutive day, official figures released Saturday showed, as a two-week holiday in the Islamic republic came to an end.
Iran registered 2,560 new infections of COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a televised news conference.
It is the fourth consecutive drop in new cases since Tehran declared 3,111 on March 31.
UK deaths from the coronavirus could rise to between about 7,000 and 20,000 under measures taken to slow the spread of the virus, Neil Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College in London who has helped shape the government's response, said on Sunday.
"We had an exponentially growing curve of infections which we interrupted at a certain time," the epidemiologist told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.
The death toll from coronavirus in India has risen to 99. The tally of confirmed cases has risen to 3,588, with the most cases reported from the states of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
In Pakistan total confirmed cases increased to 2899 and death toll rose to 45.
Singapore reported 120 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, by far its highest daily rise, and quarantined nearly 20,000 migrant workers in their dormitories.
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