More than 460,000 new cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally in the past 24 hours, pushing a total number of infections to 104.95 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Saturday.

Axar.az reports that according to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 15,400 to exceed 2.29 million.

As of 18:14 Moscow time on February 6, as many as 104,956,439 coronavirus cases and 2,290,488 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 460,906 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 15,407.