More than 628,000 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been recorded globally in the past day, which is new maximum, bringing the total number of infections to 52.48 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Friday.

Axar.az reports that according to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 9,600 to exceed 1.29 million.

As of 18.14 Moscow time on November 13, as many as 52,487,476 coronavirus cases and 1,290,653 coronavirus-related deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 628,136 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 9,623.

To date, a daily surge of 613,977 cases recorded on November 7 is a record high number of infections.