The total number of global coronavirus cases has crossed 102 million, and the death count have increased to more than 2.20 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 102,007,480 and 2,204,494, respectively.
US still remains as the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 25,909,336 and 436,541, respectively, according to the CSSE. India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,720,048. The countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (9,118,513), the UK (3,783,593), Russia (3,771,514), France (3,212,640), Spain (2,743,119), Italy (2,529,070), Turkey (2,464,030), Germany (2,207,393), Colombia (2,077,633), Argentina (1,915,362), Mexico (1,825,519), Poland (1,502,810), South Africa (1,443,939), Iran (1,405,414), Ukraine (1,253,127), Peru (1,119,685) and Indonesia (1,051,795), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil is at the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalities at 222,666, followed by Mexico (155,145) on the third place and India (154,010) on the fourth. The nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (104,572), Italy (87,858), France (75,765), Russia (71,054), Spain (58,319), Iran (57,807), Germany (56,286), Colombia (53,284), Argentina (47,775), South Africa (43,633), Peru (40,484), Poland (36,780), Indonesia (29,518), Turkey (25,736), Ukraine (23,610) and Belgium (20,982).
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