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| - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 385,869 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Thursday. At least 6,522,050 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 2,820,000 are now considered recovered. The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections. Many countries are testing only symptomatic cases or the most serious ones. The United States is the worst-hit country with 107,175 deaths from 1,851,520 cases. At least 479,258 people have been declared recovered. After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 39,728 deaths from 279,856 cases, Italy with 33,601 deaths from 233,836 cases, Brazil with 32,548 deaths and 584,016 cases and France with 29,021 deaths and 188,674 cases. China -- excluding Hong Kong and Macau -- has to date declared 4,634 deaths and 83,022 infections. It has 78,319 recovered cases. Europe overall has 181,143 deaths from 2,212,312 cases, the United States and Canada have 114,633 deaths from 1,943,930 infections, Latin America and the Caribbean 57,701 deaths from 1,145,993 cases, Asia 17,693 deaths from 610,239 cases, the Middle East 9,962 deaths from 437,684 cases, Africa 4,606 deaths from 163,287 cases, and Oceania 131 deaths from 8,612 cases. As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day's tallies. bur-fmd/abm/jv/ach
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