**FILE** Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (International Telecommunication Union via Wikimedia Commons)
**FILE** Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (International Telecommunication Union via Wikimedia Commons)

The World Health Organization reported Sunday a single-day global record for coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

The WHOโ€™s total figures showed 307,930 cases had been confirmed to the agency, CBS News reported. That figure has only topped 300,000 once before, when 306,857 cases were recorded on Sept. 6.

โ€œLives and livelihoods have been lost, the global economy is in recession and social and political fault lines have been exposed,โ€ WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said via link Monday at the agencyโ€™s European regional committee, CBS reported. โ€œWe are no means out of the woods.โ€

As of Sunday, WHO has documented more than 28,870,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with more than 921,800 related deaths.

This correspondent is a guest contributor to The Washington Informer.

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