The global tally of COVID-19 cases surpassed 8 million accompanied by 437,000 deaths on Tuesday, as new cases surged to about 100,000 a day led by infections mostly in the Americas and South Asia.
It took just eight days for the world to get from 7 million cases up to 8 million. That was one day faster than the nine-day jump from 6 million cases on May 31 up to 7 million on June 8.