Washington, Oct 11 (UNI) The number of global novel Coronavirus cases surpassed the 37 million mark, while the deaths have soared to nearly 1,071,400 on Sunday, Johns Hopkins University said.
The total number of cases stood at 37,087,467 and the fatalities increased to 1,071,399, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
The US is the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 7,711,079 and 214,337, respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 6,979,423, while the country’s death toll soared to 107,416.
The other countries with the cases are Brazil (5,055,888), Russia (1,278,245), Colombia (902,747) and Argentina (883,882) the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 149,639.
The countries with a death toll above 20,000 are Mexico (83,842), UK (42,850), Italy (36,140), Peru (33,158) and Spain (32,929).
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