A woman wearing a face mask and holding a pair of disposable gloves walks past the Trocadero place near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Oct. 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

- Most European countries resorted to varied, fine-tuned and targeted measures rather than a general lockdown.

- In Asia, India remains the worst-hit nation with 7,814,682 COVID-19 cases.

- More than 8.5 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States.

BEIJING, Oct. 25  -- The spread of coronavirus is on a spiraling trend in many parts of the world, and record daily increases in infections have been refreshed more frequently in some European countries amid the second wave of the COVID-19.

After over 40,000 new COVID-19 infections were registered for the second day in a row, France on Friday became the second country in Europe to pass the grim 1 million mark, according to health authorities.

The latest Johns Hopkins University figure shows that the total confirmed cases in France have reached 1,084,659 as of 0000 GMT Sunday.

On Friday, a slew of European countries reported record daily surges in COVID-19 cases, including Poland (13,632), the Netherlands (10,007), Romania (5,028), Portugal (3,270), Hungary (2,066), Denmark (859), and Latvia (250).