07 May 2024,   03:36
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A new single-day record - nearly 308 000 new coronavirus cases worldwide.

The World Health Organization is reporting a record one-day rise in COVID-19 cases. The global healthy agency reported nearly 308,000 people tested posited for the virus in a 24-hour period. That brought the worldwide total to more than 28-million cases.


Besides the United States, two other countries that are contributing to this worldwide increase of new cases are Brazil and India. Indian officials reported nearly 92,000 new cases, that’s more than twice as many as the U.S. over the same 24-hour period.


Europe is also seeing a big jump in new cases. Fro example, France reported a new single-day record with more than 10,000 new cases on Saturday.


However, Israel is the country that’s capturing worldwide headlines this week. Israeli leaders announced a second lockdown will go into effect later this week. Israel will become the first country in the world to shutdown twice during the pandemic.

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