The world has hit another grim milestone amid the Covid-19 pandemic, after positive cases topped 50 million.
The true figure is thought to be far higher, but according to confirmed cases recorded by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker, more than 50.4 million cases had been reported globally by Monday morning.
More than 1.25 million people have died with the disease worldwide. However, more than 33 million people have recovered, the data shows.
The US, which has around 4% of the world’s population, represents almost a fifth of all reported cases. The country has had more than 9.9 million cases and more than 237,000 deaths from the virus since the pandemic started, according to Johns Hopkins data. India and Brazil, with the second and third most cases, have many millions more cases than France, which is next on the list.
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Coronavirus cases and deaths continue to soar in the US. It reported more than 126,000 positive cases and more than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, according to the University.
That marked the fourth day in a row that new cases topped more than 100,000, as the country continued to break its own record for daily cases on nearly every day last week, as it approaches 10 million cases.
Elsewhere, India has 8.5 million cases and Brazil 5.6, with France and then Russia approaching 2 million.
Spain, Argentina, the UK, Colombia and Mexico make up the rest of the top ten for cases.
Similar countries also make up the top ten for deaths, though Iran and Peru also appear and Mexico, in fourth, and the UK, in fifth, have been worse hit by that measure.
As of yesterday, the UK death toll since the pandemic began stood at 49,044 and the number of cases was 1,192,013, official figures. The true totals are believed to be significantly higher.
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