CDC reports 193,195 US deaths from coronavirus
Washington: The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday (Monday AEST) reported 6,467,481 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 40,423 cases from its previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 807 to 193,195.
The CDC's tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, was of 4 pm Washington-DC time September 12 versus its previous report a day earlier.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
Donald Trump has come under fire for his handling of coronavirus after it emerged in a new book that the US president knew how deadly the disease was but downplayed its severity in his statements to the public.
The World Health Organisation reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 307,930 in 24 hours.
The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency's website. Deaths rose by 5,537 to a total of 917,417.
India leads the world in new cases reported each day and set a global record last week with 97,570 cases reported in a single day, according to a Reuters tally.
In some parts of India, medical oxygen is becoming hard to find as total cases exceed 4.75 million.
Only the United States has recorded more cases at 6.5 million.
COVID-19 infections are still rising in 58 countries, including surges in Argentina, Indonesia, Morocco, Spain and Ukraine, according to a Reuters analysis.
New cases are falling in the United States and are down about 44 per cent from a peak of more than 77,000 new cases reported on July 16. Cases in Brazil are also trending downward.
Reuters