Global coronavirus caseload nears 90 million

Global coronavirus caseload nears 90 million

LONDON — As many as 89.4 million (89,475,846) people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,924,482 have died, according to a worldodometer tally. It reported that there have been 64,126,579 cases of global recoveries.Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with over 89 million confirmed cases in 218 countries and more than 1.92 million deaths. The virus is surging in many regions and countries that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are also seeing infections rise again.The US recorded Friday 264,703 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours as the confirmed cases nation-wide crossed 26 million. It also recorded 4,085 virus-related deaths, recorded for the first time since the start of the pandemic according to Johns Hopkins University.The tally showed that the confirmed cases nationwide reached 21,579,567 and at least 365,517 deaths across US, with the country remaining the world's worst hit by the pandemic.Furthermore there were a record 132,370 people currently hospitalized for coronavirus in the US, according to COVID Tracking Project.