The global coronavirus caseload has breached the 72 million cases mark, as per the latest update by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

As of 6:56 am (IST), the Covid-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at JHU reported that the world Covid-19 tally stands at 72,185,121 and 1,611,436 deaths due to the virus across the world.

The dashboard further reported that as many as 47,194,666 patients -- who tested positive for the novel coronavirus worldwide -- have recovered from the disease of which 9.3 million patients are from India which is the highest number of recoveries in the world.

The United States continues to be the worst-affected by the pandemic with its tally surpassing 16 million and deaths due to the pathogen nearing 300,000. Presently the US caseload stands at 16,240,370 while the number of patients across the country stands at 299,101.

The number of recovered patients across the nation is currently at 6,298,082, across the US.

India and Brazil continue to be the second and third most-affected countries in the world reporting over 9.8 million cases and 6.9 million cases respectively. Brazil has the second-highest death toll due to the virus in the world after the US reporting about 181,402 deaths in the South American country.

Russia has recorded 2,629,699 Covid-19 cases -- making it the fourth most affected country in the world reporting 46,404 fatalities. France has reported 2,430,612 cases and 58,015 fatalities.

The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11. (ANI)

Source: The Economic Times 

BDST: 1230 HRS, DEC 14, 2020
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