WHO announces record in new daily cases worldwide

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a record in new daily coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 reported to the UN health agency on Friday, report agencies.
The new daily high surpasses a record set earlier this week by nearly 12,000 infections.
That tally includes more than 109,000 cases from Europe alone.
Covid-19 infections continue to accelerate across Europe with countries including Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic reporting record cases on Saturday.

The flare-ups are forcing authorities to undo earlier efforts to reopen locked down economies and bring activity back to normal. But European leaders are focusing new curbs on individual towns and regions while resisting nationwide shutdowns for fear of heaping yet more pain on their battered economies.
In Russia, which reported a daily record of 12,486 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said regional administrations will have to take some kind of action if the numbers continue to climb.
The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary also reported their highest numbers since the start of the pandemic. The Czech Republic had 8,618 new cases, Poland recorded 5,300, and Hungary reported 1,374.
As infections rise in many European countries, some - including Belgium, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain and France - are diagnosing more new cases every day per capita than the United States, according to the seven-day rolling averages of data kept by Johns Hopkins University. On Friday, France, with a population of about 70 million, reported a record 20,300 new infections.
In the U.K., where Covid-19 hospitalizations jumped 50% in a week, ministers are mulling further restrictions in areas of northern England where the coronavirus is spreading fastest. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to announce a three-tier local lockdown system on Monday.
In Spain, the Madrid regional government extended local travel restrictions while some cities in the UK are closing bars and pubs.
Europe surpassed 100,000 daily reported cases for the first time on Thursday, after countries such as Russia and United Kingdom saw no respite in the mounting number of infections every day in the past five days.
In Asia, India continued on a trajectory to overtake the US as the country with the most cases, as infections climbed to 6.91 million.
In a press briefing, WHO's emergencies chief Dr Michael Ryan acknowledged that even as Covid-19 continues to surge across the world, "there are no new answers".
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