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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Tuesday
PARIS, Feb 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at least
2,237,990 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019,
according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on
Tuesday.
At least 103,330,900 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these,
at least 62,861,600 are now considered recovered.
These figures are based on daily tolls provided by health authorities in
each country and exclude later re-evaluations by statistical organisations,
as has happened in Russia, Spain and Britain.
On Monday, 9,192 new deaths and 438,962 new cases were recorded worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the
United States with 1,758, followed by Germany with 861 and Spain with 762.
The United States is the worst-affected country with 443,365 deaths from
26,321,457 cases.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 225,099 deaths
from 9,229,322 cases, Mexico with 159,100 deaths from 1,869,708 cases, India
with 154,486 deaths from 10,766,245 cases, and the United Kingdom with
106,564 deaths from 3,835,783 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population
is Belgium with 182 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Slovenia
with 169, the United Kingdom 157, Czech Republic 154 and Italy 147.
Europe overall has 743,223 deaths from 33,586,919 cases, Latin America and
the Caribbean 599,649 deaths from 18,987,567 infections, and the United
States and Canada 463,446 deaths from 27,102,474 cases.
Asia has reported 241,358 deaths from 15,269,814 cases, the Middle East
97,876 deaths from 4,769,444 cases, Africa 91,493 deaths from 3,582,972
cases, and Oceania 945 deaths from 31,713 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 infections is only a fraction of the real
total because a significant number of less serious or asymptomatic cases go
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/IJ/1750 hrs