News Desk :
Global fatalities from Covid-19 rose to 3,20,790 with total cases 49,23, 969 in 210 countries and territories while recovered 19,28,048, according to worldometer.
Total death toll in the United States rose to 92,036 with total cases 15,50,794.
With more fatalities and cases in the United States than any other country by far, the under-pressure US president has blamed the WHO for not doing enough to combat its initial spread.
“They’re a puppet of China, they’re China-centric to put it nicer,” he said on Monday at the White House. “They gave us a lot of bad advice.”
Trump had already suspended US funding to the UN body, and after his White House comments, he tweeted a letter he had sent to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus threatening to make that freeze permanent.
“It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world,” the letter said.
“The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China,” it added, giving the body 30 days to show “substantive improvements”.
Beijing has furiously denied the US allegations that it played down the threat, and Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated at the World Health Assembly that his nation had been “transparent” throughout the crisis.
Beijing said Tuesday Trump was trying to “smear China” over its international obligations to the WHO.
“The US tries to use China as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the WHO. This is a miscalculation and the US has picked the wrong target,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. The WHO’s main annual assembly was due Tuesday to discuss a resolution tabled by the European Union calling for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by the UN agency.
Spain’s overnight death toll from the coronavirus was 59 on Monday, the lowest figure in two months, the government said.
The cumulative death toll rose to 27,709, while the number of confirmed cases rose to 231,606 on Monday from 231,350 the previous day, according to health ministry figures. Figures include data for more than 24 hours as the ministry changed its methods on Monday. It was the second day in a row that deaths were under 100.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 99 on Monday, against 145 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, registering the first tally of below 100 since March 9.
New cases increased by just 451 against 675 on Sunday, the lowest daily figure since March 2.
The decline in the daily number of deaths on Monday bucked a long-running trend which had seen fatalities fall on Sundays only to rise again the following day.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 32,007 the agency said, the third highest in the world after those of the United States and Britain.
The number of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak amounts to 225,886, the sixth highest global tally behind those of the United States, Russia, Spain, Britain and Brazil.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 66,553 from 68,351 the day before.
There were 749 people in intensive care on Monday, down from 762 on Sunday, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 127,326 were declared recovered against 125,176 a day earlier.
The agency said 1.959 million people had been tested for the virus against 1.933 million on Sunday, out of a population of around 60 million.
