translated from Spanish: 430 thousand 289 killed by COVID worldwide

Paris.- The pandemic of new coronavirus has caused at least 430,289 deaths worldwide since China officially accounted for the onset of the disease in December, according to a balance established by AFP on Sunday at 11h00 GMT with official sources. Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 7,794,930 people have been reported in 196 countries or territories to contract the disease.

Of these, at least 3,513,400 were recovered according to the authorities. This number of positive diagnosed cases only reflects a portion of all contagion due to the disparate policies of different countries to diagnose cases. Some only do so with people who need hospitalization and in large numbers of poor countries the ability to conduct a limited test. The death toll in the United States, the most affected country in the world to have its first identified death of the virus in February, amounts to 115,436.The specified country 2,074,526 contagions. Authorities considered that 556,606 people healed. After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 42,720 deaths and 85,0514 cases, united Kingdom with 41,662 killed (294,375 cases), Italy with 34,301 deaths (236,651 cases), and France with 29,398 deaths (193/616 cases). Mainland China (not counting Hong Kong and Macau) has 83,132 infected people, of which 4,634 died and 78,369 fully healed. On Sunday at 11H00 GMT and from the beginning of the epidemic, Europe totalled 187,550 deaths (2,393,826 contagions), the United States and Canada 123,599 (2,172,934), Latin America and the Caribbean 78,293 (1,614,8 Asia 22,824 (822,639), Middle East 11,591 (548,026), Africa 6,301 (233,992), and Oceania 131 (8,710). This balance sheet was made with data from national authorities collected by AFP offices and with world health organization (WHO) data. You may be interested:China records highest daily number of coronavirus in 2 monthsThe Covid has changed the way you wear the duelHow to know if it is dengue or coronavirus

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