Death toll due to coronavirus outbreak crosses 50k in US

In United States, the death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic crossed the 50,000-mark today, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In the last 24 hours 3,176 people died from the virus in the US. Globally, the COVID-19 cases exceeded 2.7



million, with more than 192,000 dead, the university said.

The US accounted for nearly a third of the total number of cases, exceeding 869,000, and over a quarter of the fatalities with 50,031.