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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Tuesday
PARIS, Aug 25, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
813,733 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according
to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Tuesday.
At least 23,689,860 cases have been registered. Of these, at least
15,098,600 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 symptomatic or the most serious cases.
On Monday, 4,252 new deaths and 222,172 new cases were recorded worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were India
with 848, followed by Brazil with 565 and the United States with 450.
The United States remains the worst-hit country with 177,284 fatalities
from 5,741,088 cases. At least 2,020,774 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 115,309 deaths from
3,622,861 cases, Mexico with 60,800 deaths from 563,705 cases, India with
58,390 deaths from 3,167,323 cases, and the United Kingdom with 41,433 deaths
from 326,614 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is
Belgium with 86 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru with 84,
Spain 62, the United Kingdom 61, and Italy 59.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 84,981
cases, including 4,634 deaths and 79,961 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall reported 261,078 deaths from
6,782,464 cases, Europe 213,414 deaths from 3,761,932 infections and the
United States and Canada 186,398 deaths from 5,866,206 cases.
Asia has recorded 89,480 deaths from 4,631,874 cases, the Middle East
34,812 deaths from 1,423,053 cases, Africa 27,990 deaths from 1,196,539
cases, and Oceania 561 deaths from 27,800 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.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1812 hrs