The WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11, when there were 118,000 confirmed cases and 4,000 had died. The first 41 cases were confirmed...
As of the time of filing this report, there are 16,202,385 confirmed cases across the globe, data from worldometers.info, an online dashboard that tracks the global number of confirmed coronavirus cases, showed.
The four worst-hit countries: the U.S., Brazil, Russia and India alone have a combined figure of nearly nine million infections, more than half of the global total. The United States which already has the highest number of reported infections in the world – 4,315,709 – is also the country with the highest death toll of nearly 150,000.
In Brazil, more than 2.3 million people have tested positive including President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 86,000 people have died. While Mr Bolsonaro has played down the outbreak, its scale has made Brazil a prime testing ground for potential vaccines.
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