The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated July 4)

10:00, July 04, 2020

• 

  The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated July 2)

  Globally, as of 10 am BJT on Thursday, there have been 10,357,662 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 508,055 deaths, reported the World Health Organization.People wait in line at a walk-up testing site for COVID-19 during the new coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Photo: AP)Current status (data as of 10 am BJT, July 2):Sources: Xinhua, Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies.The outbreak has now claimed 130,284 lives in the US, the most of any country, with a total of 2,748,048 infections, according to a tally by the 1Point3Acres virus tracker as of 10 am BJT on Thursday.Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Brazil have increased to 1,448,753 with 60,632 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported.Russia has confirmed 653,479 cases of COVID-19, with the number of deaths at 9,521.India has confirmed a total of 585,493 COVID-19 cases, raising the number of deaths to 17,400.The UKs confirmed cases have increased to 314,992, with the number of deaths at 43,991, according to the JHU virus tracker.Peru has reported 288,477 COVID-19 cases and 9,860 deaths from the virus so far.A total of 282,043 people in Chile have tested positive for COVID-19, with the death toll at 5,753.Spain has recorded 249,271 confirmed cases and 28,355 deaths.The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 34,788 lives in Italy, bringing the total number of infections to 240,760.It is followed by Mexico with 28,510 deaths from 231,770 infections.

• 

  The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated July 1)

  A woman wearing a face mask and gloves - a measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease - casts her ballot in a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms at a polling station in Moscow on July 1, 2020. (Photo: AFP)The total number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has increased to 511,851with the global confirmed cases reaching 10,498,090as of 7:30 pm BJT on Wednesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.Sources: Xinhua, Johns Hopkins University, 1Point3Acres and national public health agencies.Current status (data as of 7:30 pm BJT, July 1):The outbreak has now claimed 128,989lives in the US, the most of any country, with a total of 2,696,420infections, according to a tally by the 1Point3Acres virus tracker as of 7 pm BJT on Wednesday.The Brazilian Health Ministry on Tuesday raised the national count of COVID-19 cases to 1,402,041 with 59,594 deaths.Over the last 24 hours, the country reported 33,846 new cases and 1,280 more deaths, according to the ministry.Russia confirmed 6,556 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total number of infections to 654,405, its coronavirus response center said in a statement on Wednesday.During the last 24 hours, 18,653 fresh positive cases and 507 deaths were reported, according to Indias federal health ministry. The nationwide toll has risen to 585,493 and a death toll of 17,400.Another 155 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain as of Monday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 43,730, the British Department of Health and Social Care said Tuesday.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced a 5-billion-pound plan to fuel economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.A total of 142 people got infected by the new coronavirus over the past 24 hours, compared to 126 new infections on Monday, the Italian Ministry of Health said Tuesday in its daily report.Authorities will lock down ...