Johns Hopkins University statistics show the cumulative number of global positive COVID-19 cases is now over 38 million cases. This is because thousands of new cases were recorded within 24 hours.
According to these statistics, it shows that the United States continues to remain the worst affected country with 7.97 million cases of infection. This was followed by India with 7.3 million cases, while Brazil recorded over 5.1 million cases.
COVID-19 infection in Russia surpassed 1.34 million cases. Meanwhile, Argentina, Columbia, Spain, and Peru surpassed half a million cases. Also, over 500,000 cases are France, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Iran.
Countries in the range of 300,000 to 500,000 cases of infection are Chile, Iraq, Bangladesh, Italy, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia.
For the cumulative number of global deaths worldwide, the number of reported cases has exceeded 1.09 million cases. The United States remains the highest number of deaths with over 217,000 cases, followed by Brazil with 152,000 cases.
India and Mexico recorded over 111,000 and 84,000 deaths respectively and the United Kingdom recorded 43,000 cases.
Countries such as Italy, Peru, Spain, and France share the death toll of more than 30,000 cases.
Source: Johns Hopkins University