ZCZC
BFF-27
HEALTH-VIRUS-TOLL
Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Sunday
PARIS, May 24, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed at
least 342,295 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last
December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP
at 1100 GMT on Sunday.
At least 5,327,680 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196
countries and territories. Of these, at least 2,066,300 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.
The US is the worst-hit country with 97,087 deaths from 1,622,670
cases. At least 361,239 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 36,675
deaths from 257,154 cases, Italy with 32,735 from 229,327 cases, Spain
with 28,678 deaths and 235,290 cases and France at 28,332 deaths and
182,469 cases.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared
4,634 deaths and 82,974 cases. It has 78,261 recovered cases.
Europe overall has 173,551 deaths from 2,014,969 cases, the United
States and Canada have 103,534 deaths from 1,706,291 infections, Latin
America and the Caribbean 39,103 deaths from 715,568 cases, Asia
13,962 deaths from 439,229 cases, the Middle East 8,762 deaths from
335,953 cases, Africa 3,253 deaths from 107,205 cases, and Oceania 130
deaths from 8,466 cases.
Corrections by national authorities or late publication of data
mean the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond
exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
BSS/AFP/MRU/1740hrs