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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Sunday
PARIS, May 17, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at
least 311,959 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last
December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP
at 1100 GMT on Sunday.
At least 4,647,980 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196
countries and territories. Of these, at least 1,656,100 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 United States has the highest number of deaths overall with
88,754 from 1,467,884 cases. At least 268,376 people have been
declared recovered.
Britain has the second highest toll overall, with 34,466 deaths
from 240,161 cases.
It is followed by Italy with 31,763 deaths and 224,760 cases, Spain
with 27,650 fatalities for 231,350 cases and France with 27,625 deaths
and 179,365 infections.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared
4,634 deaths and 82,947 cases. It has 78,227 recovered cases.
Since Saturday 1900 GMT, Nepal has announced its first virus-related death.
Europe has a total of 165,725 deaths from 1,882,402 cases, the
United States and Canada have 94,512 deaths and 1,543,654 cases, Latin
America and the Caribbean have 28,629 deaths and 505,427 cases, Asia
has 12,157 deaths and 353,577 cases, the Middle East has 8,108 deaths
and 273,241 cases, Africa has 2,702 deaths from 81,294 cases, and
Oceania 126 deaths from 8,391 cases.
Corrections by national authorities or late publication of data
mean the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond
exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
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