The US has become the world's first country to have registered more than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day with 2,108 fatalities reported between Friday and Saturday.

Meanwhile, the number of infections in America has crossed 5,00,000, the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data. China, where the deadly Coronavirus disease started in December last year, has so far recorded 81,000 cases of positive infections and 3,339 deaths.