COVID-19 worldwide

World coronavirus cases pass 1 million mark

By Nicoletta Lanese - Staff Writer 16 minutes ago

That's 10 times more cases than the globe reported just a month ago.

 
 
 
 
 

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More than 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have now been reported worldwide.

As of today (April 2), the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has spread to 204 countries and regions, sickened 1,001,079 and killed 51,385, according to Worldometer, which relies on multiple data sources to track the virus spread. Roughly a month ago, on March 5, the worldwide case count came in at 96,888, Live Science reported.