The global death toll from COVID-19 is approaching 100,000 people — as nearly every country in the world reports at least one confirmed case of the coronavirus.
Medical staff, seen at a Paris hospital Thursday, treat a patient infected with COVID-19. The worldwide death toll connected with the disease is nearing 100,000 — a startling statistic that may have seemed unthinkable just several months ago.Lucas Barioulet/AFP via Getty Images
Medical staff, seen at a Paris hospital Thursday, treat a patient infected with COVID-19. The worldwide death toll connected with the disease is nearing 100,000 — a startling statistic that may have seemed unthinkable just several months ago.Just over a week ago, the worldwide death toll linked to the coronavirus stood at— a staggering sum for a virus that was still largely unknown to the world at the start of the year.
Now, that death toll has nearly doubled and is nearing 100,000 combined deaths from the respiratory disease known as COVID-19. As of Friday morning ET, data compiled byshowed the number of confirmed cases worldwide at more than 1.6 million and the global death toll at just over 97,000 — about 7,000 more deaths, in other words, than the number reported Thursday.
A handful of Western European countries — particularly Italy, the United States, Spain, France and the United Kingdom — so far have felt the brunt of the disease's deadly effects, combining to make up roughly half the global death toll.
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