Coronavirus toll at 1000 GMT Tuesday

PARIS: The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4,574,225 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT on Tuesday.

At least 221,133,570 cases of coronavirus have been registered. The vast majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms weeks or even months later.

The figures are based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country.

They exclude revisions made by other statistical organisations, which show that the number of deaths is much higher.

The World Health Organization estimates that the pandemic's overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records, due to the excess mortality that is directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19.

A large number of the less severe or asymptomatic cases also remain undetected, despite intensified testing in many countries.

On Monday, 7,614 new deaths and 463,457 new cases were recorded worldwide.

Coronavirus toll at 1000 GMT Monday

Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were United States with 959 new deaths, followed by Russia with 795 and Iran with 635.

The United States is the worst-affected country with 649,426 deaths from 40,018,326 cases.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 583,810 deaths from 20,899,933 cases, India with 441,042 deaths from 33,058,843 cases, Mexico with 263,470 deaths from 3,433,511 cases, and Peru with 198,523 deaths from 2,155,508 cases.

The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Peru with 602 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Hungary with 311, Bosnia-Herzegovina with 302, Republic of North Macedonia with 293, Czech Republic with 284 and Montenegro with 282.

Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 1,451,028 deaths from 43,625,756 cases, Europe 1,262,396 deaths from 64,124,966 infections, and Asia 795,893 deaths from 51,198,404 cases.

The United States And Canada has reported 676,448 deaths from 41,534,432 cases, Africa 199,788 deaths from 7,934,119 cases, Middle East 186,889 deaths from 12,583,459 cases, and Oceania 1,783 deaths from 132,441 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.