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NewsColony Number of COVID-2019 cases across globe up by over 83,000 in past day — WHO GENEVA, April 23. /TASS/. More than 83,000 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus were registered worldwide on April 22, exceeding the previous day’s statistics by more than 9,000 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Wednesday. As of 11:00 Moscow time on April 22, as many as 2,471,136 novel coronavirus cases and 169,006 coronavirus-associated deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 73,920 in the past 24 hours and the number of fatalities increased by 6,058. Europe accounts for the majority of confirmed cases and fatalities – 1,219,486 and 109,952 respectively. In the past 24 hours, the number of cases grew by 32,302 and the number of deaths – by 3,618. The number confirmed COVID-2019 cases in South and North America reached 925,291 and the number of deaths stands at 44,775. In the past 24 hours, the number of cases grew by...