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Washington: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill. Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis from around the globe on Monday.
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 62.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.45 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE)in its latest update on Monday revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 62,670,153 and 1,458,360, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 13,374,162 and 266,838, respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,392,919, while the country's death toll soared to 136,696.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed cases are Brazil (6,314,740), France (2,270,573), Russia (2,249,890), Spain (1,628,208), the UK (1,621,305), Italy (1,585,178), Argentina (1,418,807), Colombia (1,308,376), Mexico (1,101,403) and Germany (1,055,607), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 172,833.
The countries with a death toll above 20,000 are Mexico (105,459), the UK (58,342), Italy (54,904), France (52,410), Iran (47,874), Spain (44,668), Russia (39,127), Argentina (38,473), Colombia (36,584), Peru (35,879) and South Africa (21,477).
NYC Covid infection rate hits new high of 3.9%: Mayor
New York City's Covid-19 infection rate on 7-day average has reached a new height of 3.9 per cent, compared with 3.64 percent reported one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio has tweeted.
"We're going to continue to be guided by facts and data as we fight back against #COVID19 and reopen our city," the mayor said on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The rate topped 3 per cent last week and has remained above the level ever since. Three per cent is deemed by the municipal government as a threshold to a second wave of the pandemic.
On Sunday morning, de Blasio announced that New York City's public elementary schools will reopen one week later as the city is striving to recover from the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
"Reopening our @NYCSchools buildings is paramount to recovering from #COVID19. Today we can announce that we plan to reopen buildings for: 3-K, Pre-K and grades K-5 on Monday, December 7; District 75 schools at all grade levels on Thursday, December 10," the mayor tweeted.
(With IANS Inputs)
