The total number of global Coronavirus cases has topped 102 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.20 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. On Saturday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 102,007,480 and 2,204,494, respectively.

Belgium sees surge in kids
The number of new Coronavirus cases has more than doubled among children under the age of 10 in one week in Belgium, a top health official said here. Yves Van Laethem, the inter-federal COVID-19 spokesman said the actual rate of increase was 128 per cent. The increase in contaminations among teenagers was 41 per cent, he said. “Currently in Belgium, three-quarters of the new cases detected are linked to children or teenagers,” he said. The increase is due to the scale of screening campaigns focusing on clusters within schools.