More than 600,000 new cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally in the past 24 hours, pushing a total number of infections to 96.87 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin.

Axar.az reports that according to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 15,800 to exceed 2.09 million.

As of 19.57 (GMT+4) on January 23, as many as 96,877,399 coronavirus cases and 2,098,879 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 600,790 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 15,846.