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Coronavirus cases worldwide double in a week to 400k as pandemic accelerates
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Coronavirus cases have now hit 400,000, representing a doubling in the past week. To date, more than 415,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, with 18,559 deaths.
There has been a major surge of new cases in the US, which have surged tenfold in the past week to more than 50,000. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 85% of cases in the past day have been recorded in Europe or the US.
It comes as WHO officials have warned the pandemic is accelerating. The 100,000 cases milestone was reached on March 6, more than two months after the disease was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
It then took just 12 days for that figure to hit 200,000, and only a further three days to reach 300,000 cases. Now the 400,000-case mark has been
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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