Washington: In yet another unfortunate milestone, the total number of worldwide COVID-19 cases has surpassed the 70 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 1.59 million, as per the Johns Hopkins University.
In its most recent update on Saturday, the University’s Centre for Systems Science and Engineering CSSE uncovered that the current worldwide caseload and death toll remained at 70,131,911 and 1,592,486, respectively.
As indicated by the CSSE, the US is the most badly hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 15,834,965 and 294,874, respectively.
American authorities cautioned a spike in death was coming after millions traveled around the country for the Thanksgiving occasion in the previous month, ignoring requests to remain at home to slow the spread of the infection.
The country had reported a total number of 289,188 COVID deaths, up by 3,071 in 24 hours. It additionally recorded almost 220,481 new cases.
California, where some 33 million individuals were back under lockdown this week, saw more than 30,000 cases on Wednesday – the highest 24-hour count in a US state, as indicated by the COVID Tracking Project.
The number of virus patients hospitalized in the US keeps on breaking records, reaching 106,000 on Wednesday.
India arrives in second place as far as cases are concerned at 9,796,769, while the nation’s death toll increased to 142,186.
The different countries with over 1,000,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 are Brazil 6,781,799, Russia 2,574,319, France 2,405,210, Italy 1,805,873, the UK 1,814,395, Spain 1,730,575, Argentina 1,489,328, Colombia 1,408,909, Germany 1,298,776, Mexico 1,217,126, Poland 1,115,201, and Iran 1,092,407, the CSSE figures appeared.
Brazil presently accounts for the second most number of fatalities at 179,765.
The countries with a death count of over 20,000 are Mexico 113,019, the UK 63,603, Italy 63,387, France 57,671, Iran 51,727, Spain 47,624, Russia 45,370, Argentina 40,606, Colombia 38,669, Peru 36,499, South Africa 22,952, Poland 22,174, and Germany 21,296.
source: with input from ians
