The total reached 2,001,548 cases after the United Kingdom reported its latest figures. It took 83 days to reach the first million cases worldwide and just 14 days for the second million. The most serious pandemic in a century has killed 131,101 people around the world, according to the tally. Health workers help a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the ICU of the field hospital Municipal Gilberto Novaes in Manaus, Brazil April 14, 2020. ReutersThe epicentre has moved from China, where the new coronavirus first emerged in December, to the United States, which now has the highest death toll.

Source: bd News24 April 15, 2020 13:52 UTC