US surpasses 5 mn Covid-19 cases, with 19.4 mn worldwide

Washington/Geneva, Aug 9 (efe-epa).- The United States, the country with the largest number of coronavirus cases and the world’s highest death toll from Covid-19, surpassed five million confirmed cases on Sunday, with the death toll standing at 162,441, according to the independent tally being kept by The Johns Hopkins University. Following the US, which had a total of 5,000,603 confirmed cases as of 10 am, comes Brazil, with 3,012,412 cases, India with 2,153,010 and Russia with 885,718. Regarding Covid-19 deaths, following the US is Brazil with 100,447, Mexico with 52,006 and the United...