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| - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2,285,334 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday. At least 104,848,470 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 63,863,800 are now considered recovered. These figures are based on daily tolls provided by health authorities in each country and exclude later re-evaluations by statistical organisations, as has happened in Russia, Spain and Britain. On Thursday, 16,136 new deaths and 511,406 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the United States with 5,282 new deaths, followed by Mexico with 1,682 and Brazil with 1,232. The United States remains the worst-affected country with 455,875 deaths from 26,679,633 cases. After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 228,795 deaths from 9,396,293 cases, Mexico with 162,922 deaths from 1,899,820 cases, India with 154,823 deaths from 10,802,591 cases, and the United Kingdom with 110,250 deaths from 3,892,459 cases. The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 183 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Slovenia with 172, the United Kingdom 162, the Czech Republic 159 and Italy 149. Europe overall has 762,486 deaths from 34,173,922 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean 610,011 deaths from 19,307,659 infections, and the United States and Canada 476,362 deaths from 27,472,057 cases. Asia has reported 243,228 deaths from 15,384,394 cases, the Middle East 98,679 deaths from 4,850,079 cases, Africa 93,623 deaths from 3,628,597 cases, and Oceania 945 deaths from 31,768 cases. Since the start of the pandemic, the number of tests conducted has greatly increased while testing and reporting techniques have improved, leading to a rise in reported cases. However the number of diagnosed cases is only a part of the real total number of infections as a significant number of less serious or asymptomatic cases always remain undetected. 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-bla/tup/txw
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