WASHINGTON: According to the Johns Hopkins University report, the total number of global coronavirus cases has climbed 108.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.39 million. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 108,788,324 and 2,399,330, respectively.
Notably, India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,904,940.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (9,834,513), the UK (4,049,920), Russia (4,026,506), France (3,467,884), Spain (3,056,035), Italy (2,721,879), Turkey (2,586,183), Germany (2,341,744), Colombia (2,195,039), Argentina (2,025,798), Mexico (1,992,794), Poland (1,588,955), Iran (1,518,263), South Africa (1,491,807), Ukraine (1,316,520), Peru (1,227,205), Indonesia (1,217,468), Czech Republic (1,088,009) and the Netherlands (1,043,541), the CSSE figures showed Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalities at 239,245, followed by Mexico (174,207) on the third place and India (155,642) on the fourth.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (117,387 deaths), Italy (93,577), France (80,961), Russia (78,825), Germany (65,016), Spain (58,945), Iran (58,945), Colombia (57,605), Argentina (50,236), South Africa (47,899), Peru (43,491), Poland (40,807), Indonesia (33,183), Turkey (27,471), Ukraine (25,631), Belgium (21,634) and Canada (21,261).
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