Global coronavirus cases pass 1 crore

The world has now seen over 1 crore cases of COVID-19, the illness which started spreading in the very beginning of the year and has now killed over 5 lakh people worldwide. 

As per latest figures, the world has seen 10,081,545 coronavirus cases including 501,298 deaths. Over 5 million people have also recovered after contracting the virus. 

The USA has over 25% of the world's COVID-19 cases. As of today, 2,596,537 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the US including 128,152 deaths and 1,081,437 recoveries. Brazil, Russia and India are the next in line of countries worst impacted by the novel coronavirus

The first cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed on January 10 in Wuhan in China before infections and fatalities surged in Europe, then the United States, and later Russia.

The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.