Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 4 Million, With U.S. Reporting Most Deaths
More than 4 million cases of the novel coronavirus have now been diagnosed worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. The education and research institution, which updates its digital tracker cataloging global COVID-19 figures at least twice daily, initially reported the number on Saturday, totaling individual case counts from 187 countries and regions across the globe confronting ramifications of the pandemic. The tracker indicated that at least 50,000 additional cases were identified by Sunday morning.
More than 50 percent of cases detected since the virus first emerged last December were currently active on Sunday, the university's statistics showed. Of roughly 4.05 million people who contracted the illness overall, about 1.38 million had recovered, while nearly 280,000 had died. Those calculations suggested close to 2.4 million people were still infected worldwide, with the United States reporting the highest incidence of cases as well as resulting fatalities.
The U.S. became the new coronavirus pandemic's global epicenter at the end of March, when the number of cases confirmed nationwide surpassed those separately confirmed by Italy and China, which had previously reported the world's highest- and second-highest case counts. At the time, at least 92,000 people had tested positive for the disease across a handful of U.S. states, more than 1,200 of whom had died.
As Newsweek reported on March 27, the U.S. had recently seen a surge in diagnoses, having confirmed more than 50,000 positive cases over the three-week period following its 100th diagnosis. The data, originally published by The Financial Times, pointed to a forthcoming outbreak curve more severe than those experienced in any other affected country.
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