9M COVID CASES. People spend their afternoon by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC on June 21, 2020. Some nine million confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been recorded worldwide, with the US suffering the most with 2.3 million cases and 120,044 deaths. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
NEW YORK – Global confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases topped nine million on Monday, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at the Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 472,171 people worldwide have died of the disease, the CSSE data showed.
The United States suffered the most from the pandemic, with 2,312,302 cases and a death toll of 120,044.
Among the countries with more than 200,000 cases are Brazil, Russia, India, Britain, Peru, Chile, Spain, Italy, and Iran, according to the Johns Hopkins tally. (Xinhua)
