Index – Abroad – The coronavirus epidemic has almost 240,000 dead

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, on Saturday morning, May 2, 3,344,099 people worldwide were infected with the coronavirus and 238,663 people died of Covid-19.

The number of cases can be much higher than this, because many people go through the disease without symptoms, the criteria for keeping records vary from country to country, and the population is not tested to the same extent everywhere.

Most deaths in the United States continue to be caused by Covid-19 disease induced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the country 1 103 There are 781 confirmed infections, 64 956 dead and 164 015 cured.

Family members at the funeral of an American veteran who died of a coronavirus infection in Denver on April 27, 2020

Photo by Rick Wilking.

• Spain: 213,435 infected, 24,543 deaths, 112,050 recovered
• Italy: 207,428 infected, 28,236 dead, 78,249 recovered
• United Kingdom: 178,685 infected, 27,583 dead and 892 healed
• France: 167,305 infected, 24,628 deaths and 51 124 cured
• Germany: 164,077 infected, 6,736 deaths and 126,900 cured
• Turkey: 122,392 infected, 3,258 dead and 53,808 cured.
• Russia: 114,431 infected, 1,169 dead, 13,220 cured
• Iran: 95,646 infected, 6,091 deaths and 76,318 recovered
• China: (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) 83,959 infected, 4,637 victims, 78,580 cured.
• Brazil: 92,202 infected, 6,412 dead and 38,039 recovered.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the coronavirus was a pandemic that spread from Wuhan in central China.