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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Wednesday
PARIS, June 24, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at
least 477,570 people since emerging in China last December, according
to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP as of 1100 GMT
Wednesday.
At least 9,279,310 cases of COVID-19 have been registered in 196
countries and territories. Of these, at least 4,548,900 are 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 symptomatic or the most serious cases.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 121,225 deaths from
2,347,102 cases. At least 647,548 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 52,645
deaths from 1,145,906 cases, Britain with 42,927 deaths from 306,210
cases, Italy with 34,675 deaths from 238,833 cases, and France with
29,720 deaths from 197,674 cases.
China — excluding the regions of Hong Kong and Macau — has to date
declared 83,430 cases, a rise of 12 since Tuesday, including 4,634
deaths and 78,428 recoveries.
Europe overall has 194,029 deaths from 2,567,220 cases, the United
States and Canada 129,724 deaths from 2,449,065 infections, Latin
America and the Caribbean 100,399 deaths from 2,163,594 cases, Asia
30,566 deaths from 1,096,166 cases, Middle East 14,155 deaths from
669,097 cases, Africa 8,565 deaths from 325,216 cases, and Oceania 132
deaths from 8,958 cases.
As a result of corrections by national authorities or late
publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may
not correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
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