The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 400,000 people worldwide since its appearance in China in December, a number that has doubled in a month and a half, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Sunday at 2:30 p.m. GMT .
A total of 400,052 deaths (for 6,929,960 reported cases) have been recorded worldwide, almost half of which in Europe (183,428 deaths). With 109,802 deaths for 1,920,061 confirmed cases, the United States is the country with the most deaths, ahead of the United Kingdom (40,542 deaths for 286,194 cases), Brazil (35,930 deaths for 672,846 cases), Italy (33,846 deaths, 234,801 cases) and France (29,142 deaths, 190,631 cases).
