LIVE | More than half a million corona deaths worldwide Abroad

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The number of people worldwide who died of the coronavirus passed the 500,000 mark on Sunday. This is shown in a count from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Earlier Sunday, the number of people worldwide infected with the coronavirus exceeded 10 million.

The United States has the most deaths with 125,714 deaths, followed by Brazil with 57,070 deaths and the United Kingdom with 43,634. Most diagnosed infections are also in the US: 2.53 million, followed by Brazil with 1.31 million.

In Europe, after the United Kingdom, Italy (34,738), France (29,781) and Spain (28,343), the number of corona deaths was the worst hit. In Russia, most people became infected: over 633,000. According to official figures, 9060 people have died in Russia.

Dutch situation stable

In the Netherlands, the number of deaths did not increase on Sunday and remains at 6105. The total number of Dutch people who have tested positive for the coronavirus is 50,147, health institute RIVM reported on Sunday.

In Germany, 262 new cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed in the past 24 hours. This is evident from figures from the Robert Koch Institut (RKI), the German counterpart to RIVM. The number representing the degree of contamination rose slightly.

According to the RKI, 193,761 infections are now known in the country. The German death toll from the lung virus increased by 4 deaths to 8961.

The infection rate of the virus increased slightly from a day earlier, according to the RKI. Where the reproduction number was estimated at 0.62 on Saturday, it is 0.71 on Sunday. That figure means that a hundred people infect an average of 71 others.

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