More than 64,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, and the number of confirmed cases in 181 countries has passed 1.2 million, according to John Hopkins University figures.
Just over one in every four of the confirmed cases is residing in the United States, with 312,146 cases.
There are 64,771 people who died from the respiratory disease worldwide.
One out of every four people who died from COVID-19 complications is from Italy which recorded a death toll of 15,362 .
In the US, New York is taking the heat most from the other states. Yesterday, 630 died from coronavirus, making the death toll to 2,624. US President Donald Trump warned ”there will be a lot of deaths” in the near future as the biggest economy in the world have yet to see a flattening of its epidemic curve.
“This will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately, but a lot less death than if this wasn’t done but there will be death,” Trump said.
Spain took over from Italy the no. 2 of the most number of COVID-19-infected population with 126,168 cases.
There are encouraging data coming from both Spain and Italy. The number of COVID patients in intensive care units in Italy have dropped for the first time yesterday. Spain’s death toll also fell for two days in a row, and is getting also “close to passing the peak of infections,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
Germany and France likewise took over the fourth position from China where the coronavirus outbreak first reported last January 2020. Earlier, a leaked US intelligence report said China, with 1.4 billion population, may have under-reported its figure of COVID-19 cases and death that it is sharing to the world. China denied this accusation.
The ten countries with most number of confirmed coronavirus cases are:
1. US – 312,076
2. Spain – 126,168
3. Italy – 124,632
4. Germany – 96,092
5. France – 90,848
6. China – 82,574
7. Iran – 55,743
8. United Kingdom – 42,479
9. Turkey – 23,934
10. Switzerland – 20,505
