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Global coronavirus deaths surpass 270,000

Published : 09 May 2020, 00:36

  DF-Xinhua Report
Pedestrians walk past a J.Crew store in Manhattan of New York, the United States, May 4, 2020. File Photo Xinhua.

Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 270,000 on Friday, reaching 270,537 as of 11:32 a.m. (1532 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 3,877,914 cases have been reported from over 180 countries and regions across the world, according to the CSSE.

The United States reported the most COVID-19 deaths at 75,852 among 1,259,777 cases. Other countries with over 20,000 fatalities included Spain, Italy, Britain and France, the CSSE data showed.