World sees 11,340 new Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2,508,786 persons because the outbreak emerged in China in Dec 2019, according to a tally from official sources published by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday.
At least 112,955,460 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of the, at least 69,278,500 are actually considered recovered.
These figures are based on daily tolls supplied by health authorities on each country and exclude later re-evaluations by statistical organisations, as has happened on Russia, Spain and Britain.
On Thursday, 11,340 new deaths and 450,127 new cases were recorded worldwide.
Based on latest reports, the countries with new deaths were america with 3,269 new deaths, accompanied by Brazil with 1,541 and Mexico with 877.
AMERICA remains the worst-affected country with 508,314 deaths from 28,413,620 cases.
Following the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 251,498 deaths from 10,390,461 cases, Mexico with 183,692 deaths from 2,069,370 cases, India with 156,825 deaths from 11,063,491 cases, and the uk with 122,070 deaths from 4,154,562 cases.
The country with the best number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 190 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, accompanied by the Czech Republic with 187, Slovenia 183, the uk 180 and Italy 160.
Europe overall has 845,199 deaths from 37,205,424 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean 671,087 deaths from 21,118,888 infections, and america and Canada 530,160 deaths from 29,270,835 cases.
Asia has reported 255,088 deaths from 16,050,018 cases, the center East 103,478 deaths from 5,408,794 cases, Africa 102,825 deaths from 3,869,234 cases, and Oceania 949 deaths from 32,273 cases.
Since the start of pandemic, the quantity of tests conducted has greatly increased while testing and reporting techniques have improved, resulting in a growth in reported cases.
However the number of diagnosed cases is merely a part of the real final number of infections as a substantial number of a smaller amount serious or asymptomatic cases generally remain undetected.
Due to 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
