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NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The global death toll from coronavirus surpassed 900,000 on Wednesday (Sept. 9), as cases worldwide surpassed 27.7 million, according to a Reuters tally.
The United States continues to be the most affected country in the world, with deaths that exceed 190,000 and cases that exceed 6.3 million. Brazil ranks second with more than 127,000 deaths followed by India with almost 74,000 deaths.
On Monday, India reported 90,802 new confirmed infections, its highest daily jump, bringing its total to more than 4.3 million and putting Brazil and its 4.1 million cases in third place.
As the epicenter of the pandemic shifts to India, there is no sign of a spike in the world’s second most populous nation. As bars reopened on Wednesday for the first time since closing, they are adding more cases each day than any other country since the start of the year. It is recording more deaths than any other country, an average of more than 1,000 a day for the past two weeks.
The Americas still account for more than half of all deaths worldwide due to high death counts in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and Ecuador.
An average of more than 5,600 people die each day from Covid-19, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past two weeks. The death rate remains stable and takes 18 days to rise from 800,000 to 900,000 deaths. It took 17 days to go from 700,000 to 800,000.
India’s death rate is around 1 percent, while Brazil and the United States have death rates of around 3 percent, in line with the world average.
While both deaths and cases in the United States have declined since the July peak, cases are increasing in roughly 40 percent of the country, exacerbated in part by the return of students to college towns.
As cases rebound in parts of Europe, countries have recently seen single-day records in new cases similar to those seen during the spring, indicating that a second wave is taking place.
The sharp rise of nearly 3,000 new cases in Britain over the weekend was the highest jump since May, prompting a ban on meetings of more than six people as Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to control the increase.
Britain, which has the fifth highest death toll at 41,594, has a 14-day quarantine for those returning from European holiday destinations such as some Greek islands, France, Croatia and Spain, which are experiencing similar spikes.
Spain was the first Western European country to register more than half a million cases on Monday and now has a total of 552,000 infections.
The first Covid-19-related death was reported on January 10 in Wuhan, China, after the coronavirus first emerged there in December.
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