Coronavirus death toll exceeds 2 million and 542 thousand worldwide

Capitals, SANA- The novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than two million and 542 thousand people worldwide since its appearance in December last year according to the latest statistics by the American Worldometers website.

The website added that the total number of the coronavirus infections worldwide has climbed to 114,658,204, while the death toll has amounted to 2,542,373 and the recoveries has reached up to 90,179,044.

The US still on the top of the countries affected by the coronavirus in terms of the number of fatalities and infections after recording 525,807 deaths out of 29,245,418 infections, then comes India in the second place registering 157,193 fatalities out of 11,112,012 infections.

Meanwhile, Brazil comes in the third place after recording 254,942 deaths out of 10,551,259 infections.

Rafah al-Allouni/ Ruaa al-Jazaeri