Deaths from the COVID-19 respiratory disease have topped 1.3 million, with nearly 54.3 million global infections reported.
Here's the latest from around the world.
Europe
- France has registered 27,228 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and a further 302 deaths from the disease in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, although there were signs of a fall in the rate of new cases
- Italy has registered 33,979 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday (local time), down from 37,255 on Saturday. The ministry also reported 546 COVID-related deaths, from 544 the day before.
- The UK reported 24,962 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, down from 26,860 on Saturday. Britain's daily number of new deaths reported within 28 days of a positive test fell to 168 from 462, taking the cumulative total to 51,934
- An unexpected 10 percent rise in the five-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in Ireland threatens to reverse a recent sharp drop in the incidence rate of the disease to the third-lowest level in Europe, the country's chief medical officer said on Saturday.
Asia
- The Chinese city of Jinan said over the weekend it had found coronavirus on beef and tripe and their packaging from Brazil, Bolivia, and New Zealand, while two other provincial capitals detected it on packaging on pork from Argentina
- India will fly doctors in from other regions, double the quantity of tests carried out, and ensure people wear masks in efforts to contain the coronavirus spread in the capital New Delhi, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday
- Indonesia reported 4106 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, taking the total caseload to 467,113, data from the country's COVID-19 task force showed. It also recorded 63 COVID-19 deaths, taking the number of fatalities to 15,211.
Americas
- US President-elect Joe Biden's top aide Ron Klain on Sunday (local time) urged Congress to pass bipartisan COVID-19 financial relief as a surge in cases shattered records and strained hospitals nationwide, and called for immediate action to allow his team to coordinate with the outgoing Trump administration. New cases nationwide have hit daily records in recent days, more than doubling single-day infection numbers reported during the previous US peak in mid-July. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 10,846,373 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 155,708 from its previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 1252 to 244,810.
Middle East and Africa
- New coronavirus infections in Iran have risen by 12,543 in the past 24 hours, a record high, taking the cumulative total to 762,068, the health ministry said on Sunday (local time). Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 459 people had died in the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll in the Middle East's worst-hit country to 41,493.
