Almost 6.7M cases of COVID-19 worldwide; death toll 392,878

PARIS, France - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 392,878 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Friday.

At least 6,696,690 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 2,886,800 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 108,708 deaths from 1,883,656 cases. At least 485,002 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 40,261 deaths from 283,311 cases, Brazil with 34,021 deaths and 614,941 infections, Italy with 33,774 deaths from 234,531 cases, and France with 29,111 deaths and 190,052 cases.

China -- excluding Hong Kong and Macau -- has to date declared 4,634 deaths and 83,027 infections. It has 78,327 recovered cases.

Europe overall has 182,440 deaths from 2,237,964 cases, the United States and Canada have 116,459 deaths from 1,977,983 infections, Latin America and the Caribbean 60,540 deaths from 1,201,871 cases, Asia 18,261 deaths from 638,309 cases, the Middle East 10,172 deaths from 455,923 cases, Africa 4,875 deaths from 176,016 cases, and Oceania 131 deaths from 8,632 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