PARIS: The new coronavirus has killed at least 436,806 people since the outbreak in China emerged last December. At least 8,054,786 cases have been reported in 196 countries and territories according to a count compiled by AFP from official sources on Monday.
Of these, at least 4,155,899 are considered recovered. The counts probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries only test for symptomatic or more severe cases. The United States is the most affected country with 117,951 deaths for 2,170,158 cases. At least 8,70,640 people have been declared recovered.
After the USA The USA, the countries with the highest number of deaths are Brazil with 43,485 deaths from 873,963 infections, Great Britain with 41,736 deaths from 296,857 cases, Italy with 34,371 deaths from 237,290 cases and France with 29,407 deaths from 157,220 cases.
China, excluding Hong Kong and Macao, has reported 4,634 deaths and 83,181 infections to date with 78,370 recoveries.
Overall, Europe has 187,925 deaths from 2,411,653 cases, the United States and Canada have 123,928 deaths from 2,192,802 infections, Latin America and the Caribbean 79,777 deaths from 1,654,461 cases, Asia 23,361 deaths from 855,373 cases, the Middle East 11,848 deaths for 561,067 cases, Africa 6,523 deaths of 244,532 cases, and Oceania 131 deaths of 8,710 cases.
The number of deaths in Saudi Arabia exceeded 1,000 on Monday, the health ministry said, amid a further spike in infections just a few weeks before Haj.
The death toll rose to 1,011 as the total number of infections rose to 132,048, the highest in the Gulf, according to ministry data.
The number of daily cases exceeded 4,000 for the second consecutive day on Monday. Intensive care units in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah are full of patients with coronavirus, which puts pressure on the health care system, two medical sources told AFP.
Iran warned on Monday that it may have to re-impose harsh measures to ensure social distancing, as it reported more than 100 deaths for the second consecutive day.
Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said 113 new deaths brought the total number of COVID-19 deaths to 8,950 since the country's outbreak began in February.
She also said another 2,449 people had tested positive in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall workload to 189,876.
The government closed schools, postponed major public events, and banned city-to-city travel to halt the spread of the virus in March before gradually easing restrictions from April.
Official figures have shown an upward trend in new confirmed cases since the beginning of May when Iran hit a nearly two-month low in daily recorded infections.
Chinese health officials on Monday reported 49 new cases of coronavirus, including 36 more in the capital, Beijing, where a new group linked to a wholesale food market has fueled fears of a second wave of infections.
In addition to the new Beijing cases, the National Health Commission said there were three confirmed cases in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing.
Chile's new health minister announced Sunday that the official death toll in the country would include suspected cases, which could double the current number.
Enrique Paris also said quarantine measures in the Santiago metropolitan region would extend "at least until June" after Chile registered almost 7,000 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The United States has recorded 382 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, with a death toll of 115,729, according to a count on Sunday from Johns Hopkins University.
The world's leading economy is by far the country most affected in the pandemic, with the highest number of deaths and the highest number of infections: 2,093,335 at 8:30 pm on Sunday (0030 GMT on Monday), a tracker kept by the Baltimore-based university showed.
However, the country continues to record around 20,000 new cases and is struggling to get off that plateau as infection rates fluctuate across the country.
UN agencies warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic could kill 51,000 children under the age of five in the Middle East and North Africa by the end of the year.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF, said that disruption of essential health and nutrition services risked "reversing progress (in) child survival in the region by almost Two decades".
A raft of EU nations reopened their borders to their European counterparts on Monday after months of coronavirus brakes.
As the number of cases has decreased in recent weeks in many parts of Europe, governments have been interested in easing painful blockades that have saved lives but devastated confined and tired economies and populations.
Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, and Ukraine were among those who lifted border restrictions on Monday, while shops and outdoor attractions in England welcomed their first customers since March, and in Paris cafes and restaurants were able to reopen entirely.
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