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Coronavirus cases worldwide top 55 million

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,328,048 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 11:00 GMT on Tuesday.

At least 55,022,350 cases have been registered and at least 35,235,100 are now considered recovered.

The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.

Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases.

On Monday, 7,810 new deaths and 529,892 new cases were recorded worldwide.

Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were United States with 1,008, followed by France with 506 and Italy with 504.

The United States is the worst-affected country with 247,229 deaths from 11,206,054 cases. At least 4,244,811 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 166,014 deaths from 5,876,464 cases, India with 130,519 deaths from 8,874,290 cases, Mexico with 98,861 deaths from 1,009,396 cases, and the United Kingdom with 52,147 deaths from 1,390,681 cases.

The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 124 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru with 107, Spain at 88 and Argentina with 79.

China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 86,361 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 81,374 recoveries.

Latin America and the Caribbean overall have 425,308 deaths from 12,101,300 cases, Europe 342,547 deaths from 14,901,097 infections, and the United States and Canada 258,227 deaths from 11,505,246 cases.

Asia has reported 183,066 deaths from 11,531,906 cases, the Middle East 70,321 deaths from 2,965,005 cases, Africa 47,638 deaths from 1,987,747 cases, and Oceania 941 deaths from 30,052 cases.

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.

— AFP