Washington, Feb 15 (UNI) The total number of global Novel Coronavirus cases has topped 108.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.39 million on Monday, the Johns Hopkins University said.
The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 108,788,324 and 2,399,330, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 27,639,317 and 485,332, respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,904,940.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed COVID-19 cases are Brazil (9,834,513), the UK (4,049,920), Russia (4,026,506), France (3,467,884) and Spain (3,056,035), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalities at 239,245, followed by Mexico (174,207) on the third place and India (155,642) on the fourth.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 30,000 were the UK (117,387), Italy (93,577), France (80,961), Russia (78,825), Germany (65,016), Spain (58,945) and Iran (58,945).
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