On Friday, the United Kingdom reported 16,022 new COVID-19 cases and 521 additional fatalities, all of which occurred over the past 24 hours.
In total, the United Kingdom has reported 1,589,301 COVID-19 cases and 57,551 coronavirus related fatalities.
The United States is currently leading global COVID-19 cases with over 13.2 million infections and 269,869 fatalities, although India follows closely behind with 9.3 million cases and 135,906 deaths. As for the third-highest caseload and death toll, Brazil follows with 6.2 million cases and 171,564 deaths, Russia with 2.2 million cases and 38,558 deaths, and France with 2.1 million infections and 50,957 deaths.
The novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, and has infected more than 61 million individuals worldwide, resulting in over 1.4 million fatalities across 217 countries and territories.
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