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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Thursday
PARIS, Nov 19, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
1,350,275 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according
to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 11:00 GMT on Thursday.
At least 56,234,440 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these,
at least 36,029,400 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, 11,013 new deaths and 582,654 new cases were recorded
worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the
United States with 1,751 new deaths, followed by Brazil with 756 and Italy
with 753.
The United States is the worst-affected country with 250,548 deaths from
11,529,818 cases. At least 4,350,789 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 167,455 deaths
from 5,945,849 cases, India with 131,578 deaths from 8,958,483 cases, Mexico
with 99,528 deaths from 1,015,071 cases, and the United Kingdom with 53,274
deaths from 1,430,341 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population
is Belgium with 130 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru with
107, Spain 90 and Argentina at 80.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 86,381
cases, including 4,634 deaths and 81,433 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 428,767 deaths from 12,227,735
cases, Europe 354,124 deaths from 15,440,652 infections, and the United
States and Canada 261,701 deaths from 11,838,887 cases.
Asia has reported 184,739 deaths from 11,652,379 cases, the Middle East
71,635 deaths from 3,028,240 cases, Africa 48,368 deaths from 2,016,461
cases, and Oceania 941 deaths from 30,088 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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