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Global coronavirus cases cross 1,500,000

COVID-19 cases across the globe have crossed 1.5 million mark as over 84,000 cases were reported on Wednesday. Death toll due to coronavirus also notched up to 88,495. USA, which has seen the most number of COVID-19 cases reported 31,935 more coronavirus cases taking their overall total to 434,927 including 14,788 deaths.

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India TV News Desk New DelhiApril 09, 2020 9:35 IST

COVID-19 cases across the globe have crossed 1.5 million mark as over 84,000 cases were reported on Wednesday. The death toll due to coronavirus also notched up to 88,495. USA, which has seen the most number of COVID-19 cases reported 31,935 more coronavirus cases taking their overall total to 434,927 including 14,788 deaths. 

Spain has been the second most affected country in the world with 148,220 cases and 14,792 deaths. Cities like Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia have been under lockdown as a measure to contain COVID-19. Italy has had the most COVID-19 deaths in the world (17,669) along with 139,422 cases. 

Other European countries to bear the brunt of COVID-19 outbreak are Germany, France and UK. Both Germany and France have over 100,000 coronavirus cases while UK has had its top brass in hirarchy suffer from coronavirus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in the ICU of a London hospital. 

The collective death toll in these three countries is over 20,000. 

In India, 5,734 COVID-19 cases have been reported including 166 deaths. Maharashtra has emerged as the state with most cases (1,135) followed by Tamil Nadu (738) and New Delhi (699). 

10 worst impacted countries by COVID-19

Country,
Other		 Total
Cases		 New
Cases		 Total
Deaths		 New
Deaths		 Total
Recovered		 Active
Cases		 Serious,
Critical		 Tot Cases/
1M pop		 Deaths/
1M pop		 Total
Tests		 Tests/
1M pop
USA 434,927 +31,935 14,788 +1,940 22,891 397,248 9,279 1,314 45 2,209,041 6,674
Spain 148,220 +6,278 14,792 +747 48,021 85,407 7,069 3,170 316 355,000 7,593
Italy 139,422 +3,836 17,669 +542 26,491 95,262 3,693 2,306 292 807,125 13,349
Germany 113,296 +5,633 2,349 +333 46,300 64,647 4,895 1,352 28 1,317,887 15,730
France 112,950 +3,881 10,869 +541 21,254 80,827 7,148 1,730 167 224,254 3,436
China 81,802 +62 3,333 +2 77,279 1,190 189 57 2    
Iran 64,586 +1,997 3,993 +121 29,812 30,781 3,987 769 48 211,136 2,514
UK 60,733 +5,491 7,097 +938 135 53,501 1,559 895 105 282,074 4,155
Turkey 38,226 +4,117 812 +87 1,846 35,568 1,492 453 10 247,768 2,938
Belgium 23,403 +1,209 2,240 +205 4,681 16,482 1,276 2,019 193 84,248 7,269

 

 

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