Coronavirus Outbreak: Global COVID-19 death toll crosses 1.4 lakh, cases top 2 million worldwide
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The global coronavirus deaths on Friday crossed the 1.4 lakh mark with the United States registering the highest death toll of over 34,000.
As of 8 AM Friday (IST), 144,047 deaths have been recorded with 2,157,108 global cases of COVID-19, John Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker showed.
The US has recorded 670,353 cases and 34,617 deaths while Italy is second in terms of death toll with 22,170 casualties. Italy is behind the US and Spain in terms of the total number of cases with 168,941 reported COVID-19 infections.
Spain is second in terms of the number of cases (184,948) and third behind Italy and the US in the number of deaths (19,315).
In the US, New York state is world-affected with 16,106 deaths. Out of total COVID-19 cases in the US, 54,703 have recovered from the disease.
Here is the list of top 10 countries in terms of the number of cases:
US - 670,353
Spain - 184,948
Italy - 168,941
France - 165,027
Germany - 137,698
United Kingdom - 1,03,093
China - 82,367
Iran - 77,995
Turkey - 74,193
Belgium - 34,809
Here are 10 countries with the highest number of deaths:
US - 34,617
Italy - 22,170
Spain - 19,315
France - 17,920
United Kingdom - 13,729
Iran - 4,869
Belgium - 4,857
China - 3,342
Germany - 4,052
Netherlands - 3,315
Italy is keeping the lockdown largely in place although it lifted restrictions on two categories of shops - stationers and children's clothes - on April 14. A group of doctors and other scientists in Bologna are testing new surgical masks to ensure they meet EU safety standards, hoping to get them faster to medical workers fighting coronavirus. A group of professionals at the University of Bologna's Policlinico di Sant'Orsola hospital is working around the clock to test and validate the surgical mask prototypes to European safety standards.
As per a PTI report, the International Monetary Fund expects Italy's total output to shrink by 9.1 percent this year - the worst peacetime decline in nearly a century. Most European governments are approaching their lockdown exits with extreme caution.
In Spain, construction and manufacturing sectors returned to work on April 13, but the government has said the nationwide confinement in force until April 26 would likely last until May.
France plans to extend current measures and President Emmanuel Macron said schools and shops would gradually re-open from May 11, but restaurants, hotels, cafes and cinemas would remain shut for longer.
Britain on Thursday extended its nationwide lockdown for at least another three weeks on Thursday, as stand-in leader Dominic Raab ordered Britons to stay at home to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak.
Out of the 2.1 million recorded infections globally, nearly half of which are in Europe making it the hardest hit continent in the world.
The pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis for the modern world has forced nearly half the world population to live under strict lockdown including in India where 1.3 billion people are currently forced to stay at home as the government announced an extension to the nationwide lockdown
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis exacerbates in India, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus climbed to 12,759 with the death toll reaching 420. Till 5 PM on Thursday, 826 cases and 24 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
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