Washington, Oct 4 (UNI) The number of global Novel Coronavirus cases has topped 34.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,031,500 on Sunday, the Johns Hopkins University said.
The total number of cases stood at 34,791,855 and the fatalities rose to 1,031,528, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
The US is the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 7,379,614 and 209,335, respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 6,473,544, while the country's death toll soared to 100,842.
The other with the cases are Brazil (4,880,523), Russia (1,198,663), Colombia (848,147), Peru (821,564) and Argentina (790,818) the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 145,388.
The countries with a death toll above 30,000 are Mexico (78,880), UK (42,407) and Italy (35,968).
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