US accounts for over 1/4 of global COVID19 deaths

The United States accounts for more than one fourth of the global COVID-19 deaths and over one-third of the total number of people infected with the deadly virus, latest figures revealed on Friday.

The coronavirus pandemic that started from Wuhan City inChina in November, 2019 has so far killed more than 195,000 people across theworld and infected more than 27 lakh.

   

The United States, which has been the worst hit bycoronavirus alone accounts the highest number so far; wherein more than 9.2lakh Americans have tested positive for COVID-19 and the fatalities count onFriday stood at 51,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In fact, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US is more thanthe next six countries taken together: Spain (219,764), Italy (192,994), France(159,495), Germany (154,545), United Kingdom (144,635) and Turkey (104,912).

Despite accounting for the largest number of fatalities, thedeath rate, however, in the US is much lower than other countries, according toJohns Hopkins University.

So far, 51,000 people have died due to COVID-19 in US,followed by Italy (25,969), Spain (22,524), France (22,245), and United Kingdom(19,506).In the United States, New York accounts for thelargest number of fatalities (17,671) with 271,890 confirmed cases.

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