News Desk :
Deaths from Covid-19 claimed 4,19,518 globally with total cases 74,84,103 in 213 countries and territories while recovered 37,98,671, according to worldometer.
The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 1,15,141 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 20,66, 634, according to wordometer.
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States topped two million on Wednesday (June 10), according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The US continues to record around 20,000 new cases of Covid-19 every day, and is struggling to come down from that plateau as the level of infections wax and wane in different parts of the country.
In Texas and North Carolina, for example, there are currently more Covid-19 patients hospitalized than there were a month ago.
With half a million tests performed per day, the country is the world champion in screening per capita.
According to an average of 11 epidemiological models conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US is expected to approach 130,000 by July 4, Independence Day.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 71 on Wednesday, against 79 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases fell to 202 from 283 on Tuesday.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 34,114, the agency said, the fourth highest in the world after those of the United States, Britain and Brazil.
The number of confirmed cases amounts to 235,763, the seventh highest global tally behind those of the United States, Russia, Brazil, Spain, Britain and India.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 31,710 from 32,872 the day before.
The northern region of Lombardy, where the outbreak was first identified, remains by far the worst affected of Italy’s 20 regions, accounting for 99 of the 202 new cases reported on Wednesday.
There were 249 people in intensive care on Wednesday, down from 263 on Tuesday, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 169,939 were declared recovered against 168,646 a day earlier.
The agency said 2.713 million people had been tested for the virus as of Wednesday, against 2.676 million on Tuesday, out of a population of around 60 million.
The Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare reported no new deaths from COVID-19 for a third straight day Wednesday, while the number of new cases continued to edge up.
According to the ministry, a total of 27,136 people in Spain have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The figure has remained unchanged since Sunday.
The ministry also informed that 40 people lost their lives to the virus in the past seven days, with eight of Spain’s 17 Autonomous Communities reporting no deaths in the period. The seven-day death toll is down from the 50 it reported on Tuesday.
Wednesday, however, continued to see a rise in the number of new cases detected by PCR tests, which discover if the coronavirus is active in the body. The ministry registered 167 new infections, compared with Tuesday’s 84 and Monday’s 48.
As of Wednesday, Spain has registered a total of 242,280 infections.
