The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 212,326 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded across the globe in the last 24 hours.
This is the highest toll in one day since the virus broke out in Wuhan, China, in December.
Of the new cases, the US has the highest with 34,477, followed by Brazil with 48,105.
India has a record of 22,813 new cases.
The previous highest daily figure for new cases was 189,077, which was recorded on June 28.
As of July 4, 2010, there were 10,922,324 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 523,011 deaths.
Over 6 million patients have also recovered from the virus globally.
