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WHO says about 140,000 people died of COVID-19 worldwide

| @indiablooms | Apr 18, 2020, at 11:31 am

Washington/Sputnik/UNI: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that a total of 139,378 people had died due to COVID-19 worldwide, while the total number of confirmed cases had reached 2.074 million.

Within the past 24 hours, 82,967 new cases of the coronavirus and 8,493 fatalities have been registered, according to the WHO.

More than 1.05 million COVID-19 cases have been registered in Europe, while the United States remains the worst-hit country with 632,781 infected people.  

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