The number of confirmed coronavirus infections per day has surged to a new high of 40,000 in the United States while India also registered a new record.
A World Health Organization-led coalition fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is asking government and private sector donors to help raise $45.6 billion in the next 12 months to develop and deliver tests, treatments and vaccines for the disease.
It also hoping 2 billion vaccine doses, including 1 billion to be bought by low- and middle-income countries, will be available by the end of 2021. Elsewhere around the world, Chinese officials moved closer to containing a fresh outbreak in Beijing. South Africa, which accounts for about half of the infections on the African continent with more than 118,000, reported a record of nearly 6600 new cases after loosening what had been one of the world's strictest lockdowns earlier this month.
More than 9.66 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally and 489,398 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
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