More than 116,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection were registered worldwide in the past day, with the overall number of such cases surpassing 5.8 million and the coronavirus-related fatalities increasing by over 5,000 to surpass 362,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Saturday.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media.

As of 12.00 (GMT+4) on May 30, as many as 5,817,385 novel coronavirus cases and 362,705 coronavirus-associated deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 116,048 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 5,017. The WHO statistics is based on officially confirmed data from the countries. The day before, the organization reported 107,740 new cases and 4,354 deaths all over the world.