(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday, the world recorded more than 290.6 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 5.5 million deaths, according to statistics site worldometers.info. The number of recovered patients was nearly 255 million.
In the past 24 hours, the world recorded more than 820,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths. The US, India, Brazil, UK, Russia, and France were the countries heavily affected by the pandemic.