The number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 9 million. Global cases surpassed 9 million on Monday, with the United States, China and other hard-hit countries also reporting new outbreaks, according to a Reuters tally. Ryan said there had been a jump in cases in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Bolivia and Guatemala, as well as Brazil, which had had passed the 1 million mark - second only to the United States - and reported a record 54,000 cases in the previous 24 hours. From that perspective, we would say that this trend is not reflective of exhaustive testing, but probably under-estimating the actual number of cases." Ryan said he thought there had been "great upticks" in cases in a number of U.S. states.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 22, 2020 22:18 UTC