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The United States reported record 198,000 daily infections and the caseload soared past 12 million as families weigh whether to gather for Thanksgiving. The seven-day average has exceeded 100,000 cases a day for the last two weeks. Meanwhile, in other news, Mexico has crossed 100,000 coronavirus deaths, becoming only the fourth country in the world to do so.

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 58,144,199

Change over yesterday: 579,511

Global deaths: 1,380,474

Nations with most cases: US(12,089,440), India(9,095,806), Brazil (6,052,786), France (2,178,023), Russia(2,047,563)

Source: John Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center
 

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