The novel coronavirus death toll across the world crossed 80,000 on Wednesday, according to the data released by Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Centre.
A total of 82,145 people have died so far, with 1,431,375infections recorded globally. Besides, 301,385 people diagnosed with the virusaround the world have recovered so far.
Italy, Spain, UK and France continue to be the countriesfacing the most fatalities, while the US has the largest number of positivecases with more than 383,000. Spain, Italy and France follow the US in thenumber of cases, with over 140,000, 135,000 and 110,00, respectively.
Death toll in Italy is 17,127, in Spain 13,897, in the US12,021, and 10,343 in France.
Many countries have restricted travel from the most affectedareas and implemented lockdowns as the World Health Organization (WHO) declaredthe outbreak a global pandemic with Europe being its new epicentre.