Globally, as of 10 am BJT on Thursday, there have been 35,659,007 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 1,044,269 deaths, reported the World Health Organization.
A staff worker checks a customer's body temperature before he enters at the Torres Bermejas "tablao," or live flamenco venue, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (Photo: AP)
Current status (data as of 10 am BJT, October 8):
Sources: Xinhua, Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies.
The outbreak has now claimed 215,822 lives in the US, the most of any country, with a total of 7,703,045 infections, according to a tally by the 1Point3Acres virus tracker as of 10 am BJT on Thursday.
India has confirmed a total of 6,757,131 COVID-19 cases, raising the number of deaths to 104,555.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Brazil have increased to 5,000,694 with 148,228 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported.
Russia has confirmed 1,242,258 cases of COVID-19, with the number of deaths at 21,755.
Colombia's confirmed cases have increased to 877,683, with the number of deaths at 27,180, according to the JHU virus tracker.
A total of 840,915 people in Argentina have tested positive for COVID-19, with the death toll at 22,226.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 32,562 lives in Spain, bringing the total number of infections to 835,901.
Peru has reported 832,929 COVID-19 cases and 32,914 deaths from the virus so far.
It is followed by Mexico with 82,726 deaths from 799,188 infections.
France has recorded 693,603 confirmed cases and 32,463 deaths.