The global death toll nears 842,000 with more than 24,900,000 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization.
There are now more than 16 million known coronavirus cases worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, and 644,528 recorded deaths.
The Coronavirus outbreak reached a 'plateau"' in Brazil, the World Health Organization said Friday, urging the South American nation to take advantage of 'an opportunity' to control contagion.
The death toll in the US from the novel coronavirus outbreak rose to 137,500 and the global death toll more than 560,000.
Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that US partisanship has made the fight against COVID-19 harder and the country is not doing well in the anti-epidemic fight compared to others.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 395 to 199,198, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Friday.
The United States reported more than 59,000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the biggest increase ever reported by a country in a single day.
Brazil recorded 42,223 additional coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the total tally to 1,539,081, the second-worst outbreak in the world behind the United States.
Across the United States, 39,327 new Coronavirus infections were reported by state health departments on Thursday, surpassing the previous single-day record of 38,115, which was set on Wednesday.
The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has surpassed 479,000 with some 9,359,372 infections worldwide, according to tallies on Tuesday