Global COVID-19 cases surpass 60 million: Johns Hopkins University

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed sixty million on weekday, in line with the middle for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The global case count reached sixty,037,735, with a complete of one,413,325 deaths worldwide as of 12:27 p.m. civil time (1727 GMT), the CSSE information showed.

The U.S. reported  the foremost cases and deaths round the world, that stood at twelve,642,245 and 260,591, severally. Asian nation recorded nine,222,216 cases, ranking second within the world. Brazil followed Asian nation with half-dozen,118,708 cases and a hundred and seventy,115 deaths, the world’s second largest toll, the Xinhua wire service reported .

Countries with over one.5 million cases conjointly embrace France, Russia, Espana and United Kingdom, whereas different countries with over fifty,000 deaths embrace Asian nation, Mexico, Britain, Italian Republic and France, in line with the CSSE tally.

Global cases screw-topped forty million on nineteen Gregorian calendar month, and hit fifty million on eight Nov. It took twenty days for the world caseload to leap from forty million to fifty million, and solely seventeen days from fifty million to sixty million.

The U.S. remains the worst-hit nation, accounting for over twenty per cent of world cases.

On Tuesday, the U.S. known 172,935 new cases, marking the twenty second consecutive day that the country had reported  over a hundred,000 new cases.

US medical professionals and consultants feared the case variety can still surge once the Thanksgiving vacation.