Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads
The humanitarian costs of the coronavirus outbreak continue to mount, with more than 845,000 people infected globally. The number of people confirmed to have died having the virus has now surpassed 41,500.
he virus’s proliferation has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, meaning it is spreading rapidly in different parts of the world. More than 190 countries have confirmed cases so far.
Europe became the epicentre of the coronavirus in early March, but by the end of the month new confirmed case counts in some European countries had started to plateau, and in Italy numbers of new infections had begun to fall.