China confirmed first death onJanuary 11 and the new coronavirus disease was named as Covid-19. After thedisease was known, the Wuhan was quarantined and cut off from the world onJanuary 23. France reported its first case and death of a person outside Asiain February last year.
1 lakh cases were reported by March6 and Italy was worse hit. Covid-19 was declared as a pandemic by March 11.
Thetotal number of global coronavirus cases has topped 111.7 million, while thedeaths have surged to more than 2.47 million, according to the Johns HopkinsUniversity.
In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for SystemsScience and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload anddeath toll stood at 111,705,909 and 2,473,742 respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases anddeaths at 28,188,296 and 500,236 respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 11,005,850.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases areBrazil (10,195,160), the UK (4,138,233), Russia (4,130,447), France(3,669,354), Spain (3,153,971), Italy (2,818,863), Turkey (2,646,526), Germany(2,399,499), Colombia (2,229,663), Argentina (2,069,751), Mexico (2,043,632),Poland (1,642,658), Iran (1,582,275), South Africa (1,504,588), Ukraine(1,354,545), Indonesia (1,288,833), Peru (1,283,309), Czech Republic(1,157,180) and the Netherlands (1,075,425), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalitiesat 247,143, followed by Mexico 180,536 on the third place and India 156,385 onthe fourth.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (120,988),Italy (95,992), France (84,764), Russia (82,255), Germany (68,079), Spain(67,636), Iran (59,572), Colombia (58,974), Argentina (51,359), South Africa(49,150), Peru (45,097), Poland (42,188), Indonesia (34,691), Turkey (28,138),Ukraine (26,531), Belgium (21,923) and Canada (21,720).