The number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 across the globe surpassed one million people on Tuesday, according to the Johns Hopkins University database.
The milestone was reached nine months after the first reported fatality from COVID-19 in China in January.
As of Monday evening, a total of 1,000,555 people have died from the coronavirus, according to John Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker.
The World Health Organization, which currently lists the global death toll at slightly less than one million, has previously said that the true number of deaths from COVID-19 is likely much higher than what has been reported by countries around the globe.
The countries with the highest reported number of deaths are the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, France, Spain, and Iran, according to John Hopkins.
All ten countries have reported more than 25,000 deaths from the COVID-19, which first emerged last year in China.
The U.S. has reported 205,031 deaths from the virus – the most of any nation – followed by Brazil, with a reported 142,058 deaths. The two countries are the only ones in the world to have more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.
India, which has the third-highest number of reported deaths, is nearing 100,000 deaths. The South Asian nation has 95,542 reported fatalities.
Meanwhile, Mexico has reported 76,430 deaths, followed by the United Kingdom, which has a reported 42,090 deaths.
Italy, Peru, France, and Spain all have more than 30,000 deaths, while Iran, which has the tenth-highest reported death toll, has recorded slightly more than 25,000 deaths from COVID-19.
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