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Coronavirus worldwide cases cross 4.1 million mark; death toll at 280,431

Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 4.1 million mark taking confirmed patients toll to 4,100,609 including 280,431 deaths while 1,439,842 have recovered, as per figures by Worldometer.

coronavirus, worldwide cases, Russia Image Source : APMedical workers wearing protective gear walk after an evacuation at Spasokukotskogo Hospital in Moscow, Russia.

Coronavirus worldwide cases have crossed 4.1 million mark taking confirmed patients toll to 4,100,609 including 280,431 deaths while 1,439,842 have recovered, as per figures by Worldometer. Countries like United States, Italy, Spain, France, UK, Russia continue to remain the worst hit due to COVID-19 pandemic as coronavirus cases in all these nations are in lakhs while US toll has passed 1.3 million mark.

On Saturday, Ivanka Trump's personal trainer was tested positive for coronavirus while another White House official also reported to have contracted the virus putting other leaders health in risk and a concern for the country. Russia is another country where coronavirus cases have peaked in a very short span of time. Initially the nation did not see many cases by in the past few days, cases have surged here taking confirmed toll near 2 lakh cases.

South Korea is another country where cases have surged due to re-opening. On Saturday, its capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other nightspots because of a new cluster of coronavirus infections while Germany scrambled to contain fresh outbreaks at slaughterhouses, and Italian authorities worried that people were getting too friendly at cocktail hour during the country’s first weekend of eased restrictions.

Nations worst hit due to COVID-19 outbreak

Country,

Other
Total

Cases
New

Cases
Total

Deaths
New

Deaths
World 4,100,609 +2,321 280,431 +207
USA 1,347,309   80,037  
Spain 262,783   26,478  
Italy 218,268   30,395  
UK 215,260   31,587  
Russia 198,676   1,827  
France 176,658   26,310  
Germany 171,324   7,549  
Brazil 156,061   10,656  
Turkey 137,115   3,739  
Iran 106,220   6,589  
China 82,887   4,633  

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