SYDNEY - Global coronavirus cases surpassed 3.5 million on Monday , with deaths nearing a quarter of a million, although the rate of fatalities and new cases has slowed from peaks reached last month, a Reuters tally shows.
That compares with around 3 million to 5 million cases of severe illness caused annually by seasonal influenza, according to the World Health Organidation . The daily rate of new cases worldwide has been sitting in a 2 per - 3 per cent range over the past week, versus a peak of around 13 per cent in mid-March, prompting many countries to begin easing lockdown measures that have upended businesses and crippled the global economy.
While the number of new cases has come off a peak of 104,495 reported in a single day last week, it is still at around 80,000 to 90,000 cases per day globally.
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