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The United States on Thursday recorded 34,174,752 novel coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The pandemic has now claimed the lives of at least 611,611 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections.
India's novel Coronavirus tally crossed the 28,574,350 mark on Thursday the Indian Health Ministry said.
The state of Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu were among the five worst-affected states in India.
Second, in the list of the worst affected countries, Brazil has more than 16.8 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The country has so far reported 16,803,472 total cases and 469,784 deaths due to coronavirus.
France's novel coronavirus tally crossed the 5.6 million mark on Thursday with the death toll rising to 109,857 , according to John Hopkins University.
Turkey has reported over 5.2 million total COVID-19 cases as of May21. The country's death toll due to coronavirus stands at 47,882
Russia reported more than 5,099,182 cases of coronavirus infections so far and 122,660 deaths.
The country has the fifth-highest number of infections behind the United States, Brazil, India and France, but the number of new cases has seen a stellar rise every day in the past month.
The country has seen a sudden spike in the number of active cases. The total number of coronavirus cases in the UK stands at 4,499,878, with over 127,812 deaths.
Italy's total active infections stood at 4.2 million cases. Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 126,342
The country has seen a rapid surge in the numbers of coronavirus cases recently, with daily recorded deaths reaching new highs.
Argentina is now ninth in the line of worst-affected countries. There have been 3,884,447 confirmed cases in Spain, according to the John Hopkins tally.
Germany is now tenth worst-affected countries. There have been 89,605 deaths of coronavirus in Germany, according to the John Hopkins tally.
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