The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 114 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.53 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 114,043,020 and 2,530,004 respectively.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (10,551,259), Russia (4,198,400), the UK (4,188,827), France (3,747,263), Spain (3,188,553), Italy (2,925,265), Turkey (2,701,588), Germany (2,450,295), Colombia (2,251,690), Argentina (2,107,365), Mexico (2,084,128), Poland (1,706,986), Iran (1,631,169), South Africa (1,513,393), Ukraine (1,395,528), Indonesia (1,334,634), Peru (1,323,863), Czech Republic (1,235,480) and The Netherlands (1,103,564), the CSSE figures showed.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (123,083), Italy (97,699), France (85,741), Russia (84,700), Germany (70,109), Spain (69,142), Iran (60,073), Colombia (59,766), Argentina (51,965), South Africa (49,993), Peru (46,299), Poland (43,769), Indonesia (36,166), Turkey (28,569), Ukraine (27,404), Belgium (22,052), Canada (21,990), Chile (20,572), Romania (20,350) and Czech Republic (20,339).
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Published: 01 Mar 2021,12:21 PM IST