With more than 61 lakh (or 6.1 million) coronavirus cases, India is now the second country most affected by Covid-19 after the United States. The total number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed the 33 million mark, while deaths have risen to 1,006,379, according to Worldometers.
The global death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 1 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overwhelmed healthcare systems and changed people’s lives.
These are the 5 most affected countries with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world:
The United States leads with 7 million cases of coronavirus
The United States has registered 7,361,611 cases of new coronavirus, according to the latest data from Worldometers. So far, the pandemic has claimed the lives of at least 2.09,808 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections.
India is now the second country most affected by Covid-19
India’s novel coronavirus count has passed the 61 lakh mark with an increase of 70,589 new cases and 776 deaths. According to the update of the Union Ministry of Health on Tuesday, there are 9,47,576 active cases, while 51,01,398 patients have been cured or discharged from hospitals.
Brazil has more than four million cases of Covid-19
Third on the list of most affected countries is Brazil, which has more than four million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to Worldometers. So far, the country has reported a total of 4,748,327 cases and 142,161 deaths from coronavirus.
Russia
Russia has reported 1,159,573 cases of coronavirus infections so far and 20,385 deaths. The country has the fourth highest number of infections behind the United States, India and Brazil, but the number of new cases has seen a stellar increase every day for the last month.
Columbia: 818,203 coronavirus cases
Columbia’s new coronavirus count has crossed the eight lakh mark with the death toll rising to 25,641, according to Worldometers.
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