Updated.
April 16, 2020 03: 15:46
The number of international cases of COVID-19 passes the 2 million mark. Of those cases the United States has approximately 30 per cent.
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Two million cases worldwide
The number of cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide passed two million over night, reaching 2,000,984, according to the Johns Hopkins database, after the United Kingdom reported its newest figures.
It took 83 days to reach the very first million cases around the world and just 14 days for the second million.
The worldwide death toll now stands at more than 128,000 but professionals warn that the virus is most likely to have infected even more people, as the infection can be present in individuals who display mild and even no signs and have not always been evaluated.
The most significant cluster of existing cases has actually moved from China, where the brand-new coronavirus initially emerged in December, to the United States, which now has the highest death toll at more than 26,000 from over 600,000 confirmed cases.
Four other nations have more than 100,000 confirmed cases: Spain [over 177,000], Italy [over 162,000], Germany [over 132,000] and France [over 131,000].
The virus has actually reached all continents except Antarctica.
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