Coronavirus cases worldwide pass 19 million
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Coronavirus patients in the Gilberto Novaes Hospital in Manaus, Brazil, on May 20, 2020.
PHOTO: AFP
PARIS (AFP) - The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has passed 19 million, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 7am on Friday (Aug 7), Singapore time.
At least 19,000,553 cases and 712,315 deaths have now been registered.
Forty per cent of cases were in the United States and Brazil, the two worst-affected countries.
The US registered 4,870,367 cases and 159,864 deaths while Brazil reported 2,912,212 infections and 98,493 deaths.
