<span style="color: #222222;">The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a record increase in daily coronavirus cases across the world, despite many countries starting to ease lockdown measures.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It said there were 284,196 new infections in 24 hours yesterday, while the number of deaths increased by 9,753, which was the largest single-day increase since April 30, the BBC reported.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The latest figures broke WHO's previous record for new cases, 259,848, on July 18.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to the WHO, the number of new cases by country were the US (69,641), Brazil (67,860), India (49,310), and South Africa (13,104).</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As of today, The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to 15,822,814 while the death toll stood at 641,243, according to the Johns Hopkins University.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The US accounted for the world's highest number of infections and fatalities at 4,145,379 and 146,050 respectively, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest . Brazil came in the second place with 2,287,475 infections and 85,238 deaths.</span><br />