With patient numbers surging in Brazil and India, the world is closing in on seven million cases of COVID-19.
Two million infections, or 30 per cent of cases, are in the United States, but the fastest growing outbreaks are in Latin America, which accounts for 16 per cent of all cases.
Globally the number of deaths has passed 400,000 according to John Hopkins University, with the US accounting for about one-quarter of all facilities.
Europe has recorded more than 175,000 fatalities.
However, health experts believe the John Hopkins tally falls short of the true tragedy of the pandemic, reports AAP.
Many governments have struggled to produce statistics that could be considered true indicators of the pandemic given the scarcity of diagnostic tests, especially in the first phase of the crisis.
Authorities in Italy and Spain, with more than 60,000 combined deaths, have acknowledged their death count is larger than the numbers tell.
Brazil's last official numbers recorded more than 34,000 virus-related deaths, the third-highest toll in the world behind the US and the UK.
It reported nearly 615,000 infections, putting it second behind the US.
In the UK, worries have surfaced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is easing the restrictions too soon, with new infections potentially still running at 8000 a day.
In France, the government announced from Tuesday, it will ease restrictions limiting travel from the French mainland to overseas territories in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.
The announcement came as France recorded its lowest death toll since mid-March, with just 13 hospital deaths of patients in the past 24 hours.
Spain is preparing to take another step forward in the scaling back of its restrictions with Madrid and Barcelona opening the interiors of restaurants with reduced seating on Monday.
In Turkey, Istanbul residents flocked to the city's shores and parks on the first weekend with no lockdown, prompting a reprimand from the health minister.
Russia remained troubling, with nearly 9000 new cases in the past day, roughly in line with numbers reported in the past week.
Pakistan is pushing toward 100,000 confirmed infections as medical professionals plead for more controls and greater enforcement of social distancing directives. But Prime Minister Imran Khan said a full shutdown would devastate a failing economy.
India confirmed 9971 new coronavirus cases in another biggest single-day spike, a day before it prepares to re-open shopping malls, hotels and religious places after a 10-week lockdown.
China has reported its first non-imported case in two weeks, an infected person on the island of Hainan off the southern coast.
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