6.5M COVID-19 cases worldwide; death toll 387,280

The novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has killed at least 387,280 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Thursday.

At least 6,563,710 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 2,838,800 are now considered recovered.

The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.

Many countries are testing only symptomatic cases or the most serious ones.

The United States is the worst-hit country with 107,685 deaths from 1,861,966 cases. At least 479,258 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 39,904 deaths from 281,661 cases, Italy with 33,689 deaths from 234,013 cases, Brazil with 32,548 deaths and 584,016 cases and France with 29,065 deaths and 189,441 cases.

China -- excluding Hong Kong and Macau -- has to date declared 4,634 deaths and 83,022 infections. It has 78,319 recovered cases.

Europe overall has 181,542 deaths from 2,219,958 cases, the United States and Canada have 115,340 deaths from 1,955,666 infections, Latin America and the Caribbean 57,788 deaths from 1,151,155 cases, Asia 17,817 deaths from 618,625 cases, the Middle East 10,029 deaths from 445,075 cases, Africa 4,633 deaths from 164,615 cases, and Oceania 131 deaths from 8,621 cases.

As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day's tallies. -- Agence France-Presse