A medical worker transfers the body of a victim who died of COVID-19 at a hospital in New York, the United States, April 6, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 350,000 on Tuesday, reaching 350,417 as of 8:32 p.m. (0032 GMT on Wednesday), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Meanwhile, a total of 5,588,400 COVID-19 cases have so far been reported around the world, according to the CSSE.
The United States reported the most COVID-19 cases and deaths, which stood at 1,680,680 and 98,902, respectively. Other countries with over 20,000 fatalities included Britain, Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil, the CSSE data showed.
