(VOVWORLD) - As of Tuesday evening, the world had recorded nearly 230 million COVID-19 infections and more than 4.7 million deaths, according to worldometers.info.
The world saw nearly 384,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, with the US accounting for more than 74,000 cases, followed by the UK with 36,000, and Turkey with 28,000.
The US is still the hardest-hit country with 43 million infections and 693,000 deaths, followed by India and Brazil.