Global COVID-19 cases reach more than 10M, death toll at 506,818 with 5.2M recoveries

PARIS, France - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 506,818 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Tuesday.

At least 10,372,230 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 5,207,900 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 or the most serious cases.

The United States is the worst-hit country with 126,512 deaths from 2,612,259 cases. At least 705,203 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 58,314 deaths from 1,368,195 cases, Britain with 43,730 fatalities from 312,654 cases, Italy with 34,767 deaths from 240,578 cases, and France with 29,843 deaths from 201,208 cases.

China -- excluding Hong Kong and Macau -- has to date declared 83,531 cases (19 new since Monday), including 4,634 deaths (0 new), and 78,469 recoveries.

Europe overall has 196,987 deaths from 2,676,496 cases, the United States and Canada 135,147 deaths from 2,716,403 infections, Latin America and the Caribbean 114,108 deaths from 2,536,617 cases, Asia 34,418 deaths from 1,280,698 cases, the Middle East 16,137 deaths from 756,649 cases, Africa 9,888 deaths from 396,045 cases, and Oceania 133 deaths from 9,328 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