i'm kim brunhuber. >>> 16 million people worldwide have now been infected with covid-19. according to johns hopkins university, that's 1 million new cases in less than a week. even north korea is reporting its first suspected case. state media says it was someone who entered the country illegally from south korea in recent days, but the biggest drivers of the global pandemic remain the united states, india and brazil. for the fourth day in a row, brazil recorded more than 50,000 new infections. rio de janeiro canceled the annual new year's celebration on copacabana beach. in the united states, california leads the nation with nearly 450,000 confirmed cases. and in hard hit los angeles, the mayor warns another shutdown might be needed. here's cnn's paul vercammen. >> reporter: here in los angeles county, they are testing fast and furiously, including here at the charles r. drew university of medicine and science. they moved people through in cars and on foot. and the numbers in l.a. county rising, this n

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i'm kim brunhuber. you're watching "cnn newsroom." more than a quarter of a million people around the world have contracted the coronavirus in just 24 hours. the world health organization says it is the biggest one day total so far. many of those new cases are in the united states. so to speed up testing, the u.s. food and drug administration has given emergency approval to so-called pool testing that can analyze multiple samples at once. cnn's paul vercammen has more from los angeles. >> reporter: los angeles city leaders say a way to stop the tide of bad covid-19 numbers is through testing and then contact tracing and finding out just who does or doesn't have covid-19. testing here at the crenshaw christian center in this neighborhood predominantly black and latino, the council president here, herb wesson, says he would be in favor of even more shutdowns in los angeles and los angeles county to get after this rising problem. he also said he wants to see more leadership out of the white house. >> now this is not a time where governme

i'm kim brunhuber. >>> day by day thousands around the world are finding out they're infected with the coronavirus, but nowhere is the pandemic being felt more acutely than in the united states. here's the latest. new daily infections are still on the rise in nearly half the states. the u.s. accounts for about 1/4 of the world's total coronavirus cases and about 1/5 of all deaths. more than 5,000 people are now reported dead in texas alone. the trump administration is acknowledging to cnn that it's taking too long to get test results back. >> we after never gonna be happy with testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours, and i would be happy with point of care testing everywhere. we are not there yet. we are doing everything we can to do that. what can we do? we can test everybody in a hospital within 24 hours so they can get the new treatments we develop. we are point of care testing in nursing homes or prioritizing all nursing homes because that's where 50% of the mortality are. where there'

i'm kim brunhuber. just ahead, a dire warning. some experts are warning the u.s. could see hundreds of thousands of more deaths this year. the economy also in distress. the u.s. gross domestic product boasts its biggest drop ever and president trump floats the idea the virus could delay the election. condemnation coming from both sides of the political aisle. >>> as the u.s. nears 4.5 million cases of covid-19, the university of washington now projects' dramatic rise in deaths. university researchers say the u.s. death toll could reach 230,000 americans by november. the reason, researchers say, the refusal of many americans to wear masks and social distance. among those who have lost their lives to the virus, herman cain. it's not known where he got infected. the man leading the u.s. vaccine effort says he's optimistic every american will get vaccinated against coronavirus by the end of next year, if not sooner, but america's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, says it's too soon to make predictions about any vaccine's effectiveness. cnn's erica hill

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you're watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm kim brunhuber. >>> the number of daily coronavirus cases shootsagain.

headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber>>> the world health organization says the alarming rise in covid-19 around the world has led to the largest number of new cases in a single day. more than a quarter of a million new cases were documented in the past 24 hours. that's about three people becoming infected every second. widespread