News World COVID-19 cases approach 1.1 million, death toll nears 60,000; over 1,000 casualties in USA, France

COVID-19 cases approach 1.1 million, death toll nears 60,000; over 1,000 casualties in USA, France

Coronavirus cases worldwide are standing on the verge of crossing the 1.1 million mark while the death toll approaches 60,000. On Friday, USA and France were the countries with the highest number of casualties with 1,321 and 1,120 respectively. Total deaths in the United States have crossed the 7,000 mark while in France there have been 6,507 deaths thus far.

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Coronavirus cases worldwide are standing on the verge of crossing the 1.1 million mark while the death toll approaches 60,000. On Friday, USA and France were the countries with the highest number of casualties with 1,321 and 1,120 respectively. Total deaths in the United States have crossed the 7,000 mark while in France there have been 6,507 deaths thus far. 

Italy remains the country with the maximum number of deaths due to COVID-19 with 14,681 casualties. Spain is second from top with little less than 12,000 coronavirus related deaths. 

The USA, with 277,000 cases leads the case tally worldwide. 

Top 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
USA 277,161 +32,284 7,392 +1,321 12,283 257,486 5,787 837 22
Italy 119,827 +4,585 14,681 +766 19,758 85,388 4,068 1,982 243
Spain 119,199 +7,134 11,198 +850 30,513 77,488 6,416 2,549 240
Germany 91,159 +6,365 1,275 +168 24,575 65,309 3,936 1,088 15
China 81,620 +31 3,322 +4 76,571 1,727 379 57 2
France 64,338 +5,233 6,507 +1,120 14,008 43,823 6,662 986 100
Iran 53,183 +2,715 3,294 +134 17,935 31,954 4,035 633 39
UK 38,168 +4,450 3,605 +684 135 34,428 163 562 53
Turkey 20,921 +2,786 425 +69 484 20,012 1,251 248 5
Switzerland 19,606 +779 591 +55 4,846 14,169 348 2,265 68

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has already warned of a recession worse than the global financial crisis back in 2008. "We're now in recession, it is way worse than the global financial crisis," Georgieva said on Friday at a joint press conference with the World Health Organization (WHO), noting the "dual crisis" -- health and economic crisis -- caused by COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented in the history of IMF, Xinhua reported.

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