Another day, another grim Covid milestone. In the past 24 hours, a staggering 573,614 new Covid-19 cases were reported globally. It's a new daily record set by the world.

• Latest coronavirus situation globally:

Cases: 46,200,632 Cases in the last 24 hours: 573,614

Deaths: 1,197,722 Deaths in the last 24 hours: 7,513

Recovered: 33,396,494

Of late, the novel Coronavirus infection has been surging in several regions of the world. The United States and European countries are hit hardest nowadays. Latin America and India are also still rocked by the viral disease. This recent global surge in covid cases has prompted several countries to implement strict lockdown restrictions once again, and this time for longer periods.

The top five countries hit hardest by the coronavirus infection are as follows:

 1) USA -- 9,316,297
 2) India -- 8,136,166
 3) Brazil -- 5,519,528
 4) Russia -- 1,599,976
 5) France -- 1,331,984 

(The statistics are provided by Worldometer.)