Washington: Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday revealed that the total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 103.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.25 million.
In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the university's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) announced that the current number of global cases and death toll stood at 103,851,556 and 2,252,034, respectively.
According to the CSSE, the US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 26,431,145 and 446,744, respectively.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,776,245.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (9,283,418), the UK (3,863,757), Russia (3,842,145), France (3,283,645), Spain (2,851,869), Italy (2,570,608), Turkey (2,492,977), Germany (2,239,968), Colombia (2,114,597), Argentina (1,943,548), Mexico (1,874,092), Poland (1,520,215), South Africa (1,458,958), Iran (1,431,416), Ukraine (1,266,464), Peru (1,142,716) and Indonesia (1,099,687), the CSSE figures showed.
Currently, Brazil accounts for the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalities at 226,309, followed by Mexico (159,533) on the third place and India (154,486) on the fourth.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (108,225), Italy (89,344), France (77,383), Russia (72,982), Spain (59,805), Iran (58,110), Germany (58,276), Colombia (54,576), Argentina (48,426), South Africa (44,946), Peru (41,181), Poland (37,476), Indonesia (30,581), Turkey (26,237), Ukraine (24,100) and Belgium (21,173).