According to official sources compiled by Agence France-Presse, as of 07:50 GMT on 4 April, a total of 6,508,394 people worldwide had been diagnosed with Coronavirus Infection 2019 (COVID-19), of whom 1,504,984 had been sickened.
Expanded screening is only one reason for the increase in the number of infections; both Europe and the United States are facing a new wave of major outbreaks.
Europe remains the region with the largest number of confirmed cases, with more than 19 million people cumulatively infected, including 430,000 who died of the disease. The 52 European countries combined have added nearly 1.7 million new cases in the past week, the same number as in the previous week.
In the U.S., more than 14 million people, or one-fifth of the global total, have been infected, including 276,000 deaths. The local epidemic continues to spread at an unprecedented rate, with more than 210,000 new cases diagnosed on three days alone, a record high for a single day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. and Canada together have a cumulative total of 14.5 million confirmed cases, including at least 288,705 deaths.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there have been 13.3 million confirmed cases and 453,974 deaths. This was followed by Asia with 12.6 million confirmed cases and 197,559 deaths; the Middle East with 3.4 million confirmed cases and 80,163 deaths; Africa with 2.2 million confirmed cases and 52,825 deaths; and Oceania with 33,088 confirmed cases and 942 deaths.
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