WHO: number of COVID-2019 cases across globe up by over 87,000 in past day

As of 11:00 Moscow time on May 8, as many as 3,759,967 novel coronavirus cases and 259,474 coronavirus-associated deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 87,729 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 5,429.

Europe accounts for the majority of confirmed cases and fatalities - 1,654,345 and 152,179 respectively. In the past 24 hours, the number of cases grew by 28,308 and the number of deaths - by 1,941.

The number confirmed COVID-2019 cases in South and North America reached 1,586,129 and the number of deaths stands at 87,930. In the past 24 hours, the number of cases grew by 43,300 and the number of deaths - by 3,126.

The East Mediterranean region has 237,323 cases and 8,608 fatalities as of May 8. In the past 24 hours, the number of cases grew by 8,125 and the number of deaths - by 143.

The biggest number of coronavirus cases was reported from the United States (1,215,571), Spain (221,447), Italy (215,858), the United Kingdom (206,719), Russia (187,859), Germany (167,300), France (135,980), Turkey (133,721), Brazil (125,218), and Iran (103,135).

A pneumonia outbreak caused by the COVID-19 virus (previously known as 2019-nCoV) was reported in China’s city of Wuhan, a large trade and industrial center with a population of 12 million, in late December 2019. Since then, cases of the new coronavirus have been reported from nearly all parts of the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.