Worldwide coronavirus death toll hits 1,827,565: AFP tally

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,827,565 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

More than 83,906,690 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 53,756,600 are now considered recovered.

The figures are based on daily tolls provided by health authorities in each country and exclude later re-evaluations by statistical organizations, as has happened in Russia, Spain and Britain.

Since the start of the pandemic, the number of tests conducted has greatly increased while testing and reporting techniques have improved, leading to a rise in reported cases.

However the number of diagnosed cases is only a part of the real total number of infections as a significant number of less serious or asymptomatic cases always remain undetected.

Over Friday, 9,661 new deaths and 555,864 new cases were recorded worldwide.

The countries with the most new deaths were United States with 2,271 new deaths, followed by Mexico with 700 and United Kingdom with 613.

The United States is the worst-affected country with 347,865 deaths from 20,136,182 cases. At least 6,298,082 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 195,411 deaths from 7,700,578 cases, India with 149,218 deaths from 10,305,788 cases, Mexico with 126,507 deaths from 1,437,185 cases, and Italy with 74,621 deaths from 2,129,376 cases.