Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 100,000 for the last 24 hours, reaching 842,320 confirmed infections. The death toll rose by more than 3,000 to 41,408 deaths. The spread of the epidemic is gaining speed and rapidly expanding through the affected countries.

The US reported new 16,935 cases to total 180,723. The country has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world and the death toll already reached 3,578. The death toll in the United States from the new coronavirus outbreak has surpassed the official tally in China. That means the US now has the third-highest death toll after Italy and Spain. However, according to early data social distancing in some states had already given result with the decline in the spread of the epidemic and registered new cases, but it is too early to make final conclusion on this.

Meanwhile, Spain, the United Kingdom and France each reported their biggest overnight jump in deaths since the start of the pandemic. Spain reported 6,461 new cases to 94,417, while death toll reached 8,259. Meanwhile, France had 7,578 new cases to 52,128 with 499 deaths in the last 24 hours to 3,523.

The United Kingdom, which was still aside from the most affected countries in Europe, reported 3,000 new cases to 25,150 and deaths during the last day were 381 to 1,789.

German, the country with 68,180 infected, had only 682 confirmed deaths by a coronavirus.

Italy remains the highest affected country from the coronavirus pandemic. For another day the country reports more than 800 victims. The country had 105,792 confirmed cases and the death toll reached 12,428.