By AFP More by this AuthorThe number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million Sunday, with Brazil registering another record surge in daily infections as divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic. CUT FUNDINGAs the global death toll from the pandemic surpassed 368,000, US President Donald Trump's decision to permanently cut funding to the World Health Organization has been broadly criticised. AdvertisementThe number of confirmed cases worldwide is more than six million, according to an AFP tally. "Covid-19 spreading too fast to lift lockdown in England," tweeted Jeremy Farrar, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. The overall US death toll has topped 103,000 out of more than 1.7 million cases of the virus.

Source: Daily Nation May 31, 2020 12:11 UTC