paris the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 565000 people out of nearly 13 million registered cases worldwide has been accelerating sharply since the start of july according to a count carried out by afp from official sourcesthe three biggest daily worldwide increases in new cases were seen on saturday more than 230000 friday more than 225000 and thursday nearly 220000since july 1 nearly 25 million new cases have been officially declared a record level since the outbreak was first reported in china in decemberthe number of declared cases worldwide has doubled in just a month and a halfthe united states 3247782 cases brazil 1839850 india 849553 russia 727162 and peru 322710 account for more than half of the global totalworldwide a total of at least 12736737 infections including 565151 deaths have been recordedeurope is the most affected continent in terms of fatalities with 202396 out of 3355128 cases while the hardesthit country the united states has registered 134815 deathspresident donald trump appeared on saturday for the first time publicly wearing a mask as more than 66000 new cases were recorded in the united states according to the johns hopkins university a new daily recordlatin america and the caribbean is the region where the disease is surging the most with more than 76000 new cases registered on july 11 compared with just over 70000 in the united states and canada nearly 40000 in asia 17500 in africa and 16000 in europeon friday the world health organization said it was still possible to control the situation if rapid action was taken to deal with outbreaksthe number of diagnosed cases still reflects only a fraction of the actual number of infections some countries test only severe cases others use them primarily for tracing and many poor countries have limited testing capacity