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Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Friday
PARIS, March 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at
least 2,692,313 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 121,747,630 cases of coronavirus have been registered. The vast
majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms
weeks or even months later.
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 Thursday, 10,352 new deaths and 542,248 new cases were recorded
worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were
Brazil with 2,724 new deaths, followed by the United States with 1,376 and
Mexico with 698.
The United States remains the worst-affected country with 539,699 deaths
from 29,667,759 cases.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 287,499 deaths
from 11,780,820 cases, Mexico with 196,606 deaths from 2,182,188 cases, India
with 159,370 deaths from 11,514,331 cases, and the United Kingdom with
125,926 deaths from 4,280,882 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population
is Czech Republic with 227 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by
Belgium with 195, Slovenia 190, Montenegro 188 and the United Kingdom 185.
Europe overall has 911,769 deaths from 40,825,963 cases, Latin America and
the Caribbean 733,681 deaths from 23,260,255 infections, and the United
States and Canada 562,279 deaths from 30,589,363 cases.
Asia has reported 265,018 deaths from 16,870,208 cases, the Middle East
109,631 deaths from 6,090,040 cases, Africa 108,967 deaths from 4,077,976
cases, and Oceania 968 deaths from 33,830 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.
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