Coronavirus worldwide cases near 5 million mark; death toll at 324,554

Coronavirus worldwide cases are nearing a 5-million mark taking positive patients toll to 4,982,937 with 324,554 deaths while 1,956,361 have recovered, according to Worldometer figures. United States, Spain, Russia, UK, Germany, Brazil, Italy, France are among the worst-hit countries having maximum cases of coronavirus and the numbers are increasing every day.

The Council of the European Union adopted on Tuesday the regulation for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE) which allows financial assistance up to 100 billion euro of loans to member states, the Council said.

It is part of the emergency support package to tackle the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The instrument enables the European Union (EU) member states to request financial help to finance the sudden and severe increase of national public expenditure after governments have spent millions to save jobs in countries that were hit by the lockdown, Xinhua reported.

EU leaders endorsed the plan on April 23 and called for the package to be operational by June 1, 2020.

Nations worst hit due to coronavirus outbreak

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths
World	4,982,937	+94,813	324,554	+4,589
USA	1,570,583	+20,289	93,533	+1,552
Russia	299,941	+9,263	2,837	+115
Spain	278,803	+615	27,778	+69
Brazil	271,885	+16,517	17,983	+1,130
UK	248,818	+2,412	35,341	+545
Italy	226,699	+813	32,169	+162
France	180,809	+882	28,022
Germany	177,827	+538	8,193	+70
Turkey	151,615	+1,022	4,199	+28
Iran	124,603	+2,111	7,119	+62
India	106,475	+6,147	3,302	+146
Peru	99,483	+4,550	2,914	+125
China	82,960	+6	4,634