The following are the updates on the contagious illness.
Country Confirmed Cases
World 856,955
U.S. 188,172
Italy 105,792
Spain 95,923
Germany 71,808
France 52,827
Iran 44,605
Britain 25,481
Switzerland 16,605
Turkey 13,531
China 82,279
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UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that the COVID-19 pandemic is the most challenging crisis since the Second World War as it represents a threat to everybody.
The pandemic “represents a threat to everybody in the world and … it has an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past,” Guterres said at the virtual press launch of the UN report “Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19.”
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WASHINGTON — The death toll from COVID-19 has passed 40,000 worldwide, according to the tally from Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) on Tuesday.
As of 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1830 GMT), nations and regions have reported a total of 40,708 deaths from COVID-19, along with more than 826,000 confirmed cases, while more than 174,000 people have recovered from the disease, an interactive map maintained by the CSSE showed.
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The most affected registered the following confimed cases:
U.S. 188,172
Italy 105,792
Spain 95,923
Germany 71,808
France 52,827
Iran 44,605
Britain 25,481
Switzerland 16,605
Turkey 13,531
China 82,279
PARIS — The coronavirus cases in France have reached 52,827, with a death toll of 3,523, General Director of Health Jerome Salomon announced on Tuesday at a daily briefing.
In the last 24 hours, 7,578 more people were diagnosed with the COVID-19, which claimed 499 more deaths, the biggest fatalities caused by the virus in one day.
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STOCKHOLM — The number of COVID-19 fatalities continues to rise in Sweden, where the government introduced on Tuesday a ban on visits to elderly homes and vowed to expand testing.
The Public Health Agency of Sweden has been tasked with devising a national strategy for expanding testing for COVID-19, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced at a Tuesday press conference.
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GENEVA — The United Nations Office in Geneva confirmed nine cases of coronavirus among its staff as of March 30, said Alessandra Vellucci, director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, on Tuesday.
In a letter to UN-accredited journalists in Geneva, Vellucci said that in order to respect the confidentiality of the patients, further information will not be provided at this time, but in every case “all precautionary measures have been taken.”
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ROME — The coronavirus pandemic continued to advance in locked down Italy on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries to 105,792, according to the latest data released by the country’s Civil Protection Department.
The death toll on Tuesday was 837, bringing the total to 12,428 fatalities since the pandemic first broke out in northern Italy on Feb. 21.
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NEW DELHI — The death toll of COVID-19 in India Tuesday evening rose to 35 as the number of confirmed cases in the country reached 1,397, the federal health ministry said.
“Until 8:30 p.m. (local time) today, death toll related to novel coronavirus has reached 35,” reads the information released by the ministry.
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HANOI — Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday evening confirmed three more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 207.
The new cases include a worker of a company providing service to the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital. A number of workers at the company who had provided services to the hospital have earlier been confirmed to be infected.
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BRASILIA — Brazil’s Health Ministry on Tuesday reported that the death toll from COVID-19 has climbed from 159 to 201, as cases of infection rose from 4,579 to 5,717.
The figures show the country’s COVID-19 fatality rate is 3.5 percent, said the ministry.
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CAIRO — Egypt’s Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday 54 new cases of COVID-19, raising the tally of infections in the country to 710.
The death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 46, after five more fatalities were confirmed, the ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed announced in a statement.
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BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed four more deaths from COVID-19 and 65 new cases, bringing the total number of the infections to 694.
The new cases are 12 in the capital Baghdad, 22 in Najaf, 11 in each Sulaimaniyah and Karbala, four in Basra, two in Diyala and one in Erbil, Kirkuk and Dhi Qar each, the ministry said in a statement.
