Over 1.5 million coronavirus deaths worldwide, tally shows

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Shadows are cast across Our Woman of Mount Carmel Cemetery during a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths in El Paso, Texas November 25, 2020.– Reuters pic

PARIS, Dec 4– Over 1.5 million coronavirus deaths have been recorded worldwide from nearly 65 million cases, according to an AFP tally the other day based on main stats.

There have actually been 1,500,038 casualties from 64,774,705 cases given that the break out of the novel coronavirus in China in December. The worst afflicted area is Latin America and the Caribbean with 452,263 deaths, followed by Europe (430,060) and the United States and Canada (286,946).

Since late November, there have been more than 10,000 virus deaths globally each day usually, the greatest toll rate since the pandemic began.

Over Half the Covid-19 deaths registered over the previous 7 days have remained in Europe where brand-new restrictive steps have been introduced in lots of countries as the 2nd wave of infections takes its toll.

Italy, which suffered a record daily toll of 969 yesterday, has been the worst hit European country over the previous week, followed by Russia, Poland, France and the UK.

Globally the United States has the greatest pandemic death toll, 274,577 followed by Brazil with 174,515 and India with 138,648

Belgium remains the worst-hit in percentage to population, with 146 deaths per 100,000 citizens, followed by Peru, Spain and Italy.– AFP

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