Washington: In an unfavorable milestone, the total number of has passed the 55 million mark on Tuesday, while the deaths have increased to more than 1.3 million, as per the Johns Hopkins University.
In its most recent update, the University’s Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) uncovered that the current worldwide caseload and death count remained at 55,074,994 and 1,328,068, respectively.
The US has been hit the hardest with the world’s most number of cases and deaths at 11,205,485 and 247,220, respectively, as indicated by the CSSE.
India arrives in at second place as far as cases are concerned at 8,874,290, while the nation’s death count increased to 130,519.
Different nations with more than 1,000,000 confirmed cases are Brazil 5,876,464, France 2,041,293, Russia 1,954,912, Spain 1,496,864, the UK 1,394,299, Argentina 1,318,384, Colombia 1,205,217, Italy 1,205,881, and Mexico 1,009,396, the CSSE figures displayed.
Brazil as of now accounts the second most number of fatalities at 166,014.
The countries with a death count over 20,000 are Mexico 98,861, the UK 52,240, Italy 45,733, France 45,122, Iran 41,979, Spain 41,253, Argentina 35,727, Peru 35,231, Russia 33,619, Colombia 34,223, and South Africa 20,314.
The Chinese mainland recorded 15 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, all from overseas, the National Health Commission reported on Tuesday.
A total number of 12 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were registered, all from abroad, while 512 asymptomatic patients stay under medical observation. No COVID-19-related deaths were recorded on Monday, and 36 patients were released from hospitals.
As of Monday, the complete number of confirmed COVID-19 cases arrived at 86,361, with 4,634 fatalities.
The complete confirmed infections in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative areas and the Taiwan area are as per the following:
Hong Kong: 5,466 (5,198 recuperations, 108 deaths)
Macao: (46 recuperations)
Taiwan: 603 (536 recuperations, 7 deaths)
With still no proper COVID-19 vaccine out in the world, governments around the globe are scrambling in the face of a new, sustained increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
with IANSinput