LOS ANGELES - More than 5 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the United States, a grim milestone that comes just days after the global death count from the novel coronavirus reached over 700,000.
As of Aug. 9, there were more than 19.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases globally, according to the most recent data available from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
In the U.S. alone, as of Aug. 9, there were more than 162,000 COVID-19 deaths. The United States' confirmed case count far surpasses that of any other country.
Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of confirmed cases with over 3 million, followed by India with over 2.1 million and Russia with more than 886,000, according to Aug.