Data by worldometers.info,
said the virus hit 1,000,168 people today, with 64,971 new cases recorded
worldwide.
Global coronavirus cases
have crossed the one million mark earlier than predicted by the World Health
Organisation.
The data also showed 51,354
people dead from the virus.
United States remains the
world leader with 235,747 cases. There were 20,744 new cases logged in the last
24 hours.
Italy follows the U.S. with
115,242 cases, 4,668 of them reported today.
Spain is world’s third
worst-hit country by the virus with 110,238 cases. The country reported fresh
6,120 cases today.
On Wednesday, the World
Health Organisation said the coronavirus cases would reach one million in a few
days.
“In the next few days, we
will reach one million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and 50,000 deaths,” WHO Chief,
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“Over the past five weeks,
we have witnessed a near exponential growth in the number of new COVID-19
cases, reaching almost every country, territory and area.
“The number of deaths has
more than doubled in the past week,” he said.
When Ghebreyesus spoke,
there were 932,214 confirmed cases worldwide.
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