The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours yesterday.
The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency's website. Deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million.
India's total coronavirus cases rose by 70,496 in the last 24 hours to 6.91 million this morning, data from the health ministry showed.
Deaths from Covid-19 infections rose by 964 to 106,490, the ministry said.
India's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the US and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.
The United States has over 7.5 million cases of Covid-19 according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
The US based University also reveals that the country has 212,773 deaths.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 4,516 to 314,660, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed.
The reported death toll rose by 11, the tally showed.
The Czech Republic's daily count of the new coronavirus rose to 5,394, the third record tally in a row, as the country tightened anti-pandemic measures in an attempt to curb the recent surge.
The overall number of cases reached 100,757 in the country of 10.7m and 869 people have died in connection with the Covid-19 illness, Health Ministry data showed.
Mexico's health ministry reported 5,300 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 370 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 804,488 infections and 83,096 deaths.
The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.
Ukraine registered a record 5,804 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the national security council said, up from a previous record of 5,397 new cases reported.
The daily tally in Ukraine climbed to a record level for the third day in a row, bringing the total number of cases of coronavirus infection to 250,538 with 4,779 deaths, including 89 in the past 24 hours.
The spike in new infections prompted the government to extend lockdown measures until the end of October.
Australia records second day without Covid-19 death for first time in three months
Australia reported its second straight day without any Covid-19 deaths, the longest stretch without any fatalities from the virus in three months.
Australian states and territories reported 16 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, down from 28, and no deaths for two days, the first time Australia has gone 48 hours without a Covid-19 death since 11 July.
The results cement optimism that Australia has contained a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
The country's second most populous state Victoria, the epicentre of Australia's Covid-19 outbreak, said they now have less than 200 active infections.
"These are the results that come from a really determined effort to defeat this second wave," Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters in Melbourne.
Australia has reported more than 27,000 coronavirus infections and about 900 deaths - far fewer than many other developed countries.
Moscow considering closing bars and nightclubs
Authorities in Moscow were considering closing bars and nightclubs to halt a second coronavirus wave as the number of new daily cases surged to the highest it has been since the pandemic began.
Russia reported 12,126 new infections, pushing the overall total to 1,272,238.
The previous record daily rise was 11,656 cases on 11 May, when strict lockdown measures were in force across most of the vast country.
Russian authorities have recommended people stay at home this weekend, but currently have no lockdown in place and the Kremlin has said there are no plans to impose one for now.
The Moscow Mayor's office was looking into closing bars, nightclubs and karaoke bars, but keeping restaurants in the capital open, the RBC media outlet reported on Friday, citing a source at the mayor's office.
"We have to at least somehow reduce the number of people in the city, otherwise we may arrive at the same strict restrictions as we had in the spring," RBC quoted the source as saying.
Authorities in Moscow, the epicentre of Russia's coronavirus outbreak in the spring, has also recommended people over the age of 65 isolate and has told businesses that at least a third of their staff must work remotely.
Officials said that 201 people had died of Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, in the last 24 hours, pushing the official death toll to 22,257.
