MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th August, 2020) The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide has surpassed 24 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The university said the global coronavirus case tally stood at 24,011,502, with 821,933 deaths.
A total of 15,634,412 people have recovered from COVID-19, it said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus a pandemic on March 11.
According to the WHO, the global coronavirus death toll has surpassed 815,000 people, with the number of cases worldwide exceeding 23.7 million.
