The total number of Covid-19 cases registered worldwide since the start of the pandemic have topped 300 million, according to an AFP count based on official figures.
The figure stood at 300,042,439 cases at 15:45 GMT, including all the cases announced since the World Health Organisation office in China first reported the outbreak of the disease in late December 2019.
Over 13.5 million virus cases have been detected worldwide in the past week, a massive rise of 64 per cent over the previous seven days, averaging out at 1,938,395 new infections per day.
