WASHINGTON, May 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States recorded 2,448 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 75,543, according to the latest real-time tally reported by Johns Hopkins University.
The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has now confirmed a total of 1,254,750 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic in Asia passed 10,000 on Thursday, with just under half of the fatalities in China.
With a total of 10,001 deaths and 269,025 infections, Asia has a far lower toll than Europe, which has recorded 151,576 deaths, or the United States and Canada with 79,328.
China, which has officially recorded 4,633 deaths, has registered only one new death in the past three weeks, while the next hardest-hit Asian countries are India with 1,783 fatalities and Indonesia with 930.
The virus has killed 266,919 people worldwide. — NNN-AGENCIES
