Over 210,000 new cases of Covid infection have been recorded in the United States in the last 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
This is an absolute record.
There were over 2,900 deaths.
In Japan, infections among students tripled.
13% were infected at school, 55% outside or at home.
There are 776 deaths from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours in Brazil, bringing the total of victims since the beginning of the pandemic to 175,307.
New infections are on the rise: there were 50,883 in one day, for a total of 6,487,516