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The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NEW DELHI -- India's Health Ministry said Friday that 396 new deaths from COVID-19, besides 10,956 new cases were reported during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 8,498 and total cases to 297,535.
This is the largest single day spike in the country both in terms of new deaths and new cases. For the first time new cases reported in a single day surpassed 10,000.
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GENEVA -- The global caseload of COVID-19 has risen to 7,273,958, including 413,372 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late Thursday.
In the past day, 128,419 new cases were confirmed worldwide, with 5,347 new deaths, the UN health agency said in a daily situation report.
Among the six WHO regions, Americas has reported the highest tally with more than 3.48 million coronavirus cases, followed by Europe with nearly 2.34 million, according to the WHO report
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's Ministry of Health reported no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country on Friday, 21 days in a row after the last one was reported.
The combined number of confirmed and probable cases was 1,504, including 1,154 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as reported to the World Health Organization, said a ministry statement.
The number of COVID-19 related deaths was 22. The number of recovered cases was 1,482, it said.
Health officials said elimination is achieved after 28 days of no new cases, which equals two incubation periods. If no cases are reported next week, COVID-19 will be eliminated in New Zealand.
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SHANGHAI -- Shanghai reported five new imported COVID-19 cases and zero increase in locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the municipal health commission said Friday.
By Thursday, Shanghai had registered a total of 348 confirmed imported cases. Sixteen of them remain hospitalized and the rest were discharged from hospital after recovery, according to the commission.
The municipality had reported 341 locally transmitted confirmed cases by Thursday, including 334 discharged from hospital after recovery.
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NEW YORK -- The United States reported 941 additional fatalities from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing nationwide death toll to 113,774, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University on Thursday.
So far, the New York state has recorded 30,580 fatalities from the disease, the largest death toll across the country, followed by the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts, with 12,443 and 7,492 deaths, respectively.
The United States has both the highest number of deaths and the largest caseload -- 2,022,488 cases at 10:16 pm Thursday (0216 GMT Friday), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at the university, leaving the world's largest economy the hardest hit by the pandemic in absolute terms.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's total confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 800,000 and the death toll surpassed 40,000 on Thursday, local media reported citing the health ministry's data.
In the past 24 hours, the health ministry registered 30,412 new cases, taking the South American country's tally to 802,828, the world's second highest after the United States. The death toll reached 40,919 as more than 1,200 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, the third highest after the United States and Britain.
Some 345,595 COVID-19 patients have recovered since the outbreak in the country, the ministry said.