Global coronavirus cases surpass one million, more than 52,000 fatalities

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More than 52,000 dead as global coronavirus cases surpass one million

| Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to aItaly had the most deaths, more than 13,900, followed by Spain. The United States had the most confirmed cases of any country, more than 240,000, the data showed.

That reinforced economists’ views that the longest employment boom in US history probably ended in March and that claims were expected to rise further. In hard-hit Spain, the death toll rose to more than 10,000 on Thursday after a record 950 people died overnight, but health officials were encouraged by a slowdown in daily increases in infections and deaths.

Britain initially took a restrained approach to the outbreak but Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for the virus himself, changed tack and imposed stringent social distancing measures after modelling showed a quarter of a million people in the country could die. Italy was the first Western country to introduce sweeping bans on movement and economic activity, having first confirmed the presence of coronavirus almost six weeks ago.

In Iraq, three doctors involved in the testing, a health ministry official and a senior political official said there were thousands of cases of Cocid-19, many times more than it has publicly reported. The health ministry denied it.

 

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