Case numbers surge as WHO reports yet another record rise in global COVID-19 cases

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Freshly-dug graves in a row at Johannesburg's main Westpark Cemetery Source: AAP

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South Africa records world's fourth-largest daily increase in coronavirus cases, with a quarter of the nation's COVID-19 deaths occurring in the last week.

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