More than 473,000 new cases of nCoV have been recorded worldwide in the past 24 hours, bringing the total infections to nearly 43 million, of which more than 1.1 million people died.

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be complicated globally, as winter is coming.

An additional 5,786 Covid-19 deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths during the pandemic to 1,154,278, out of a total of 42,912,914 people infected with the virus.

The United States, the world's largest epidemic zone, recorded 8,823,429 cases and 230,043 deaths, an increase of 76,146 and 759 cases compared to a day earlier.

Six states recorded record high new infections this week including Wisconsin, Kentucky, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.

While President Donald Trump asserted that the pandemic was under control, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country's leading expert on infectious diseases, said on October 23 that the US should consider for the first time imposing an order.

In a televised address on October 20, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government is working to ensure that the Covid-19 vaccine is available to everyone when ready.

Officials said on October 23 that India is urgently preparing a database of all health workers to quickly vaccinate them as soon as the vaccine is ready.

Brazil, the third largest epidemic region in the world, recorded an additional 398 deaths from COV, bringing the total number of deaths to 156,926.

Statistics show that Brazil's nCoV figure is on the decline after skyrocketing in mid-year.

Brazil's health regulator Anvisa on October 23 allowed the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo to import 6 million doses of the vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac, although President Bolsonaro said in midweek that Brazil would not buy the Chinese vaccine.

Russia recorded an additional 296 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 25,821, while the number of infections increased by 16,521, to 1,497,167.

Although the epidemic tends to be complicated, Russian officials have eliminated the possibility of re-imposing strict blockade measures like earlier this year.

Total new infections in Europe more than doubled in the past 10 days, exceeding 200,000 new infections a day on October 22.

France recorded an additional 45,422 nCoV cases, bringing the total to 1,086,497 cases, of which 34,645 people died, an increase of 137. It is the second country in the EU and the seventh in the world to report infections exceeding one million.

President Emmanuel Macron issued a curfew in Paris and eight other major cities for six weeks, starting October 17.

He recorded 854,010 cases and 44,745 deaths, an increase of 23,012 and 174 cases, respectively.

About 3.1 million people in Wales have to stay home from 6pm for 17 days, starting October 23.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last week a new nationwide blockade would be "catastrophic", but did not eliminate this possibility as the epidemic progresses increasingly complicated.

South Africa, the world's 12th largest epidemic region and the country most severely affected by the pandemic in Africa, recorded 714,246 cases and 18,944 deaths, up 1,834 and 53 cases, respectively.

The South African government decided to open borders with most countries from October 1, while gradually loosening the world's top strict restrictions, in an effort to revive the economy.

The number of infections has increased dramatically in the Western Cape province over the past two weeks.

Iran, the Middle East's largest epidemic zone, reported 32,320 deaths, an increase of 335, while the total number of infections was 562,705, an increase of 5,814.

Iran is planning to impose new one-month restrictions, including for odd-day civil servants in the capital, Tehran, and to set different working hours for occupations to reduce crowding.

In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the region's largest outbreak with 385,980 cases, an increase of 4,070 compared to the previous day, of which 13,205 died, an increase of 128 cases.

Jakarta started to impose restrictions to prevent nCoV in early April and then loosen it up in June. However, the number of new infections in the capital a few weeks later skyrocketed.

The Philippines reported 367,819 cases and 6,934 deaths, an increase of 2,057 and 19 cases, respectively.

Most businesses have been reopened since the end of the blockade on August 19 in Manila.

Updated: 6:46, 10/25 | Source: WorldOMeters