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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Thursday
PARIS, Sept 3, 2020 (AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
863,679 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according
to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Thursday.
At least 26,074,140 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these,
at least 17,071,200 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 Wednesday, 5,944 new deaths and 265,250 new cases were recorded
worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths
were Brazil with 1,184 new deaths, followed by the United States with 1,080
and India with 1,043.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 185,752 deaths from
6,115,030 cases. At least 2,231,757 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 123,780 deaths
from 3,997,865 cases, India with 67,376 deaths from 3,853,406 cases, Mexico
with 65,816 deaths from 610,957 cases, and Britain with 41,514 deaths from
338,676 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population
is Peru with 89 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Belgium (85),
Spain (62), the United Kingdom (61), and Chile (59).
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 85,077
cases, including 4,634 deaths and 80,251 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 282,980 deaths from
7,514,827 cases, Europe 216,845 deaths from 4,061,430 infections and the
United States and Canada 194,923 deaths from 6,244,721 cases.
Asia reported 100,879 deaths from 5,427,187 cases, the Middle East
37,014 deaths from 1,526,761 cases, Africa 30,316 deaths from 1,269,758
cases, and Oceania 722 deaths from 29,460 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/IJ/1848 hrs