More than 517,000 new cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally in the past 24 hours, which pushed a total number of infections to 132.04 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Wednesday.

Axar.az reports that according to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 9,200 to surpass 2.86 million.

As of 16.34 Moscow time on April 7, as many as 132,046,206 coronavirus cases and 2,867,242 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 517,585 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 9,264.