Globally, as of 9:00 am BJT on Saturday, there have been 93,765,725 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 2,006,611 deaths, reported the World Health Organization.

A medical worker wearing protective equipment is seen during a mass COVID-19 testing operation in Roubaix, northern France, Jan. 11, 2021. (Photo by Sebastien Courdji/Xinhua)

Current status (data as of 9 am BJT, January 16):

Sources: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies.

Nearly 90,000 people in the United States may die from COVID-19 in the next three weeks, according to the latest projections of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As of Friday afternoon, the country has recorded nearly 23.4 million cases with over 390,100 related deaths, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

Another 55,761 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 3,316,019, according to official figures released Friday.

France on Friday saw the coronavirus-related death toll approach 70,000, while the daily increase in COVID-19 infections was 21,271, slightly up from 21,228 registered the day before.

More than two million COVID-19 infections have already been officially registered in Germany since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday.

Italy passed a positive milestone on Friday, with 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine having been administered just 19 days after the country launched its nationwide vaccination program.

Brazil's Health Ministry on Friday confirmed the country's first case of reinfection with a new variant of the COVID-19, detected in the northern state of Amazonas.

Turkey reported on Friday 8,314 new COVID-19 cases, including 921 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,373,115, according to its health ministry.