U.S. death toll surpasses 120,000 as countries work to contain new outbreaks
More than 120,000 people have now died from coronavirus in the United States, according to an NBC News tally, which shows that over 2.2 million people have been infected across the country.
Worldwide, almost 8.8 million people have been infected with the respiratory illness as of Sunday and it has killed more than 464,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The true number is thought to be much higher as many cases go untested. There had been no new domestic cases in the city for 56 consecutive days, but since June 11, the capital has reported 227 new cases.
Health officials said 24 of the new 48 cases on Sunday were in the Seoul region, which has been the center of the country’s latest outbreak since late May. Ten of the new cases, however, are from the central city of Daejeon, which indicates the virus is beginning to spread more broadly again. Meanwhile, badly-hit Brazil on Saturday had total number of cases had rise by more than 50,000 from the previous day, the health ministry said. President Jair Bolsonaro has been downplaying the risks of the virus despite his country surpassing 1 million cases, with nearly 50,000 fatalities.
In nearby Italy — which for a time this spring had the most cases and deaths in the world — Pope Francis welcomed doctors and nurses from the hard-hit Lombardy region to the Vatican on Saturday to thank them for their work and sacrifice.
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