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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Friday
PARIS, Jan 15, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
1,994,833 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019,
according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on
Friday.
At least 93,062,400 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at
least 56,977,000 are now considered recovered.
These figures are based on daily tolls provided by health authorities in
each country and excludes later re-evaluations by statistical organisations,
as has happened in Russia, Spain and Britain.
On Thursday, 15,404 new deaths and 752,723 new cases were recorded
worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the
United States with 3,882 new deaths, followed by the United Kingdom with
1,248 and Brazil with 1,131.
The United States remains the worst-affected country with 388,705 deaths
from 23,314,238 cases. At least 6,298,082 people have been declared
recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 207,095 deaths from
8,324,294 cases, India with 151,918 deaths from 10,527,683 cases, Mexico with
137,916 deaths from 1,588,369 cases, and the United Kingdom with 86,015
deaths from 3,260,258 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is
Belgium with 175 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Slovenia
with 149, Bosnia-Herzegovina with 134, Italy 134, and the Czech Republic 131.
Europe overall has 646,489 deaths from 30,014,839 cases, Latin America and
the Caribbean 542,333 deaths from 16,994,374 infections, and the United
States and Canada 406,214 deaths from 24,001,284 cases.
Asia has reported 228,967 deaths from 14,510,781 cases, the Middle East
93,132 deaths from 4,330,451 cases, Africa 76,753 deaths from 3,179,230
cases, and Oceania 945 deaths from 31,443 cases.
Since the start of the pandemic, the number of tests conducted has greatly
increased while testing and reporting techniques have improved, leading to a
rise in reported cases.
However the number of diagnosed cases is only a part of the real total
number of infections as a significant number of less serious or asymptomatic
cases always remain undetected.
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/SSS/1838 hrs