Global Covid-19 deaths near 870,000
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 869,718 persons because the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources published by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday.
At least 26,366,810 cases have already been registered. Of the, at least 17,298,800 are actually considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organisation (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of some of the number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases.
On Thursday, 5,871 new deaths and 278,631 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with new deaths were India with 1,096 new deaths, accompanied by america with 1,029 and Brazil with 834.
The United States is the worst-hit country with 186,806 deaths from 6,151,101 cases. At least 2,266,957 persons have already been declared recovered.
Following the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 124,614 deaths from 4,041,638 cases, India with 68,472 deaths from 3,936,747 cases, Mexico with 66,329 deaths from 616,894 cases, and Britain with 41,527 deaths from 340,411 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths in comparison to its population is Peru with 89 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, accompanied by Belgium (85), Spain (63), the United Kingdom (61), and Chile (60).
China - excluding Hong Kong and Macau - has to date declared 85,102 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 80,263 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 285,469 deaths from 7,612,884 cases, Europe 217,285 deaths from 4,099,668 infections and america and Canada 195,982 deaths from 6,281,343 cases.
Asia reported 102,164 deaths from 5,522,626 cases, Middle East 37,404 deaths from 1,543,088 cases, Africa 30,631 deaths from 1,277,479 cases, and Oceania 783 deaths from 29,724 cases.
Because of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated in the last 24 hours might not exactly correspond exactly to the previous day's tallies. - AFP
