Many countries only test symptomatic or more severe cases. (File)
Paris:
The number of recorded coronavirus cases worldwide has exceeded 18 million, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 10:40 p.m. GMT Sunday.
At least 18,011,763 cases have now been recorded as the infection rate from the pandemic continues to accelerate. A million more cases have been detected in the past four days alone.
More than half of the world‘s cases have been recorded in the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean region.
The United States is the most affected country with 4,657,693 cases including 154,793 deaths, followed by Brazil with 2,733,677 cases and 94,104 deaths.
The third most affected country is India, with 1,750,723 cases and 37,364 deaths.
Worldwide, there have been 687,941 deaths.
The counts, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably only reflect a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries only test symptomatic or more severe cases.
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