Confirmed COVID-19 infections surpassed 50 million with 1.25 million deaths worldwide on Sunday, fueled by a second wave making Europe the worst-hit region and the United States a grim record-setting nation.
Over the past month the pandemic has surged anew putting Europe again at the center of the crisis, with more than 1.5 million new cases recorded in just a week, and the United States in the position of being the first nation to report more than 100,000 new cases in a day.