Earlier in the day, India surpassed a million cases, becoming the third country in the world to do so, after the United States and Brazil.
In all three countries, the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the health systems, economies and daily lives of residents.
United Stateshas the highest number of cases in the world, with more than 3.5 million infections recorded since the start of the pandemic. Today alone, there have been over 77,000 new cases.
New daily cases more than tripled in a few weeks; the figure had hovered around 25,000 by mid-June.
The hard-hit states bring in hundreds of medical personnel from other states to help them and hospitals are running out of ICU beds. In Arizona and Texas, hard-hit counties have brought refrigerated trucks as morgues are filling up.
In Brazil,cases are increasing by tens of thousands every day. The country now has 2,012,151 cases and 76,688 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The administration has been criticized for its management of the pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro, who tested positive last week, had previously dismissed the virus as a "little flu". He criticized local leaders for imposing blockades, and suggested that they were inflating the death toll to make the federal government's response look bad.
Meanwhile, the country's Department of Health continues to be administered by an active-duty military with no public health experience, who was appointed acting minister two months ago.
In India,the ministry of health reported 1,003,832 cases in total and more than 25,600 deaths. It is also recording an outbreak of infections, signaling its highest daily jump in new cases between Thursday and Friday.
Across the country, critically ill virus patients are turned away from public and private hospitals for lack of beds, staff and equipment, while health facilities are under pressure.
The poorest citizens are the hardest hit. About 74 million people live side by side in overcrowded urban slums, where there is little running water or sanitation and where social distancing is impossible.
