Total number of global confirmed coronavirus cases surpasses 6 million: AFP tally
More than six million cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially recorded worldwide, two thirds of them in Europe and the United States, according to an AFP tally on Saturday.
As of 20:15 GMT, there were at least 6,000,867 cases of coronavirus recorded and 366,848 deaths. Europe remains the continent hardest hit by the pandemic, with 2,135,170 cases and 177,595 deaths.
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The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic cases or the most serious ones.
The United States is the worst-hit country, with 1,760,740 cases and 103,472 deaths.
But the virus is now spreading fastest in Latin America, with more than 45,000 cases in the last 24 hours, for a total of 944,695 cases and 49,230 deaths.
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