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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Saturday
PARIS, May 9, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
274,617 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December,
according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on
Saturday.
More than 3,946,130 cases were registered in 195 countries and territories.
Of these, at least 1,293,700 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.
The US has the highest number of total deaths with 77,180 out of 1,283,929
cases. At least 198,993 have been declared recovered.
Britain now has the second highest toll with 31,241 deaths from 211,364
cases.
It is followed by Italy with 30,201 deaths and 217,185 cases, Spain with
26,478 fatalities and 223,578 infections and France with 26,230 deaths and
174,791 cases.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 4,633 deaths
and 82,887 cases. It has 78,046 recovered cases.
Europe has a total of 154,144 deaths from 1,696,696 cases, the United
States and Canada have 81,858 deaths and 1,350,363 cases, Latin America and
the Caribbean have 18,651 deaths and 339,771 cases, Asia has 10,238 deaths
and 279,180 cases, the Middle East has 7,471 deaths and 214,173 cases, Africa
has 2,130 deaths from 57,689 cases, and Oceania 125 deaths from 8,261 cases.
Please note that due to corrections by national authorities or late
publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24-hour period may not
correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
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