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HEALTH-VIRUS-TOLL FACTS
Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Friday
PARIS, April 17, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 145,673 on Friday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT.
More than 2,182,740 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.
Of these cases, at least 474,900 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only the most serious cases.
In the United States, now the epicentre of the pandemic, the death toll stood at 33,286 with 671,425 infections. At least 54,703 patients have recovered.
Italy is the next most-affected country with 22,170 deaths and 168,941 confirmed infections.
It is followed by Spain with 19,478 fatalities and 188,068 confirmed infections, France with 17,920 deaths and 165,027 infections and Britain with 13,729 deaths and 103,093 cases.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 4,632 deaths and 82,367 cases with 77,892 recoveries.
Europe has listed 1,099,211 cases and 94,021 deaths to date, the US and Canada together have 701,335 cases with 34,499 deaths, Asia 154,943 cases with 6,751 deaths, the Middle East 115,745 cases with 5,357 deaths, Latin America and the Caribbean 85,237 cases with 4,001 deaths, Africa 18,546 cases with 965 deaths and Oceania 7,730 cases with 79 deaths.
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