Iran Press/Europe: The US is still the most-affected nation amid the pandemic; over 30.1 million have been infected, and the death toll exceeds 548,000.
Next is Brazil, with over 12.4 million confirmed cases and more than 307,000 deaths; followed by India, with 11.8 million confirmed cases and over 160,000 fatalities.
The United States has seen a 7 percent increase in the seven-day average number of people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said in a briefing.
The European Union is currently entering the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Number of COVID-19 Cases in India Rises by 62,258 Over Past 24 Hours.
India has confirmed 62,258 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 11,908,910, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 161,240 people, with 291 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 11.29 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 59,118 new coronavirus cases, with 257 fatalities.
India comes third in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States and Brazil, with more than 30.15 million and 12.4 million COVID-19 patients, respectively.
Germany registers 20,472 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
Germany reported 21,573 new cases on Friday, according to the RKI, with another 183 deaths bringing the total to 75,623.
Germany's top health officials have warned that the third wave of coronavirus could be the worst to hit the country so far.
Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for Infectious Diseases, said there could be as many as 100,000 new coronavirus cases daily if the disease is not curbed.
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