Spain reported 683 daily coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, a lower number of fatalities compared to the previous two days.
For the second straight day, the US recorded nearly 2,000 fatalities, while in Britain the daily death toll hit a record 938 in one day.
There are now some 1.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. More than 88,500 people have died and nearly 330,000 have recovered.
The coronavirus death toll in English hospitals rose 765 to 7,248, the health service said.
Of the 765 patients, 43 (aged between 33 and 99) had no known underlying health condition.
US weekly data shows 6.6 million new jobless claims were filed in the first week of April, nearly as high as the previous week’s record-breaking figure, as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on the economy.
Canada lost a record-breaking one million jobs in March while the unemployment rate soared to 7.8%, official data showed, as the coronavirus outbreak forced the closure of non-essential businesses.
Statistics Canada said the data did not fully capture the extent of the job losses since the agency polled respondents before the crisis began to take its full toll. Analysts in a Reuters poll had forecast a loss of 350,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 7.2%, up from the 5.6% seen in February.
