Coronavirus worldwide cases cross 4.3 million; death toll at 292,804
Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 4.3 million mark taking toll to 4,339,631 including 292,804 deaths while 1,600,728 patients have recovered, as per figures released by Worldometer.
Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 4.3 million mark taking toll to 4,339,631 including 292,804 deaths while 1,600,728 patients have recovered, as per figures released by Worldometer. United States is still the worst hit country due to the outbreak having over 1.4 million cases while next to US are Spain, UK, Russia, Italy, France and Germany who have also been hit hard by COVID-19 pandemic.
China reported seven new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday. Six of them were in the northeastern province of Jilin where authorities have raised alert levels and suspended rail connections to once county where a cluster of unknown origin has appeared over recent days. Another 754 people are in treatment for being suspected cases or for having tested positive but not shown symptoms, while 104 people are in hospital undergoing treatment.
China has reported a total of 4,633 deaths among 82,926 cases. On Tuesday, the government said it would conduct tests on all 11 million residents of Wuhan, the central industrial city where the virus was first detected late last year.
List of nations worst affected due to coronavirus outbreak
| Country, Other |
Total Cases |
New Cases |
Total Deaths |
New Deaths |
Total Recovered |
Active Cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 4,339,631 | +2,006 | 292,804 | +353 | 1,600,728 | 2,446,099 |
| USA | 1,408,636 | 83,425 | 296,746 | 1,028,465 | ||
| Spain | 269,520 | 26,920 | 180,470 | 62,130 | ||
| Russia | 232,243 | 2,116 | 43,512 | 186,615 | ||
| UK | 226,463 | 32,692 | N/A | 193,427 | ||
| Italy | 221,216 | 30,911 | 109,039 | 81,266 | ||
| France | 178,225 | 26,991 | 57,785 | 93,449 | ||
| Brazil | 177,602 | 12,404 | 72,597 | 92,601 | ||
| Germany | 173,171 | 7,738 | 147,200 | 18,233 | ||
| Turkey | 141,475 | 3,894 | 98,889 | 38,692 | ||
| Iran | 110,767 | 6,733 | 88,357 | 15,677 | ||
| China | 82,926 | +7 | 4,633 | 78,189 |
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