Spikes in coronavirus infections in European countries caused alarm on Thursday but the World Health Organization (WHO) said the continent should be able to fight the pandemic without reimposing full lockdowns.
Spain's emergencies director warned Thursday that "things are not going well" in his country's fight to ramp down COVID-19 transmission as cases keep rising.
South Korea reported 324 more cases of COVID-19 as of 0:00 a.m. Friday local time compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 16,670.
Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported a total of 105,508 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and 6,200 deaths since the onset of the outbreak.
Brazil on Thursday recorded 45,323 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the national caseload to 3,501,975, according to the country's Health Ministry.
Popular Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for many users around the world on Thursday, with the US technology giant telling affected people they were "aware of a service disruption."
