PARIS, June 26, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The novel coronavirus has killed
at least 487,274 people since emerging in China last December,
according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT
on Friday.
At least 9,604,040 cases of COVID-19 have been registered in 196
countries and territories. Of these, at least 4,770,300 are 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 United States is the worst-hit country with 122,238 deaths from
2,398,491 cases. At least 663,652 people have been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 54,971
deaths from 1,228,114 cases, Britain with 43,230 deaths from 307,980
cases, Italy with 34,678 deaths from 239,706 cases, and France with
29,752 deaths from 197,755 cases.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared
83,462 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 78,439 recoveries.
Europe overall has 195,028 deaths from 2,603,552 cases, the United
States and Canada 130,777 deaths from 2,501,065 infections, Latin
America and the Caribbean 105,753 deaths from 2,296,254 cases, Asia
31,827 deaths from 1,150,766 cases, Middle East 14,722 deaths from
695,172 cases, Africa 9,034 deaths from 348,202 cases, and Oceania 133
deaths from 9,038 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.