PARIS, Dec 25, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,743,187 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 11:00 GMT on Friday.
At least 79,313,380 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 50,154,100 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 symptomatic or the most serious cases.
On Thursday, 12,667 new deaths and 692,731 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the United States with 3,299 new deaths, followed by Mexico with 861 and Brazil with 762.
The United States is the worst-affected country with 329,106 deaths from 18,655,012 cases. At least 6,298,082 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 189,982 deaths from 7,423,945 cases, India with 147,092 deaths from 10,146,845 cases, Mexico with 121,172 deaths from 1,362,564 cases, and Italy with 70,900 deaths from 2,009,317 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 164 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Slovenia with 119, Bosnia-Herzegovina with 118, Italy 117, and the Republic of North Macedonia 114.
Europe overall has 540,647 deaths from 25,000,154 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean 493,837 deaths from 15,024,469 infections, and the United States and Canada 343,798 deaths from 19,188,172 cases.
Asia has reported 214,302 deaths from 13,617,004 cases, the Middle East 88,246 deaths from 3,853,039 cases, Africa 61,413 deaths from 2,599,658 cases, and Oceania 944 deaths from 30,885 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.