ROME: COVID-19 fatalities in Europe have reached to 42,000 mark and the confirmed cases of infection 587,836 round the European continent.
Italy is at the top of death table, as it recorded its first coronavirus death at the end of February, has 14,681 fatalities, with 119,827 infections and 19,758 people recovered. Spain has recorded 10,935 fatalities and 117,710 infections. France has reported 6,507 deaths and 83,165 cases.
Europe has listed 587,386 cases and 41,985 deaths to date, the US and Canada together have 273,199 cases with 6,865 deaths, Asia 114,493 cases and 4,082 deaths, the Middle East 67,739 cases and 3,451 deaths, Latin America and the Caribbean 25,839 cases with 735 deaths, Africa 7,592 cases with 323 deaths and Oceania 6,228 cases with 33 deaths.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared 3,322 deaths and 81,620 cases, with 76,571 recoveries.
United States recorded nearly 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 during last 24 hours. 1,480 deaths counted between 8:30pm (0030 GMT) Thursday and the same time Friday. The figure of the total number of people who have died since the start of the pandemic in the United States is now 7,406.
Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 53,000 fatalities, a Reuters tally showed on Friday, as death tolls soared in the United States and western Europe while the world economy nosedived.
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