COVID-19 deaths surpass 400,000; cases approach 7 million
Global coronavirus
(COVID-19) deaths surpassed 400,000 today, June 7, as total infections climb
towards seven million.
The virus threat marks
the dreaded milestone as yet another nation, Saudi Arabia, confirms 100,000
total infections.
Saudi Arabia
becomes the 15th country to cross the infection mark, which
continues to be led by the United States with 1.92 million cases. Brazil has
the second most infections at 672,846 followed by Russia (467,073), the United
Kingdom (286,295) and India which rounds out the top five with 248,228 cases.
There are 6.9 million
total confirmed cases of the coronavirus globally.
The United States also
leads the total number of confirmed deaths with 109,802. The United Kingdom
follows with 40,548 fatalities, Brazil (35,930), Italy (33,846) and France
(29,145).
Statistics are
provided by the John Hopkins University’s virus tracker, last updated at 8:33
a.m. today, June 7.