More than 612,000 new cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally in the past 24 hours, pushing a total number of infections to 125.78 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 10,500 to surpass 2.75 million.

As of 16.11 Moscow time on March 27, as many as 125,781,957 coronavirus cases and 2,759,432 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 612,369 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 10,590.