The US now has both the highest number of cases as well as the highest death toll.
The United States on Saturday surpassed Italy in terms of the highest recorded deaths due to the novel coronavirus as the toll in America neared 20,000.
As of Saturday midnight, US death toll stands at 19,882 against Italy's record of COVID-19 deaths of 19,468, according to John Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker.
On Friday, US recorded over 2,000 deaths, the highest tally for any country so far. At least 2,056 people died of complications related to COVID-19 in the USA in Friday, reports said.
The global coronavirus deaths on Friday crossed one lakh mark. 107,520 deaths have been recorded with 1,754,457 cases of COVID-19 worldwide so far. Globally, 392,781 infected patients have recovered.
Of these, the US has recorded 514,415 cases of coronavirus infections. The US is followed by Spain (161,852), Italy (152,271), France (130,727), Germany (123,878) and China (83,014).
In terms of death, Italy (19,468), Spain (16,353), France (13,832) and the United Kingdom (9,875) have the highest death toll after the US.
In the US, New York state is world-affected with 7,000 deaths out of which over 6,300 have been recorded in New York City alone. Out of total COVID-19 cases in the US, 29,347 have recovered from the disease.
Here is the list of top 10 countries in terms of the number of cases:
US - 514,415
Spain - 161,852
Italy - 152,271
France - 130,727
Germany - 123,878
China - 83,014
United Kingdom - 79,865
Iran - 70,029
Turkey - 52,167
Belgium - 28,018
Here are 10 countries with the highest number of deaths:
US - 19,882
Italy - 19,468
Spain - 16,353
France - 13,832
United Kingdom - 9,875
Iran - 4,357
Belgium - 3,346
China - 3,343
Germany - 2,736
Netherlands - 2,643
The pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis for the modern world has forced nearly half the world population to live under strict lockdown including in India where 1.3 billion people are currently forced to stay at home as the government announced 21-day restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19.
In India, the number of cases has risen to 7,703 with 242 deaths.
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