India leads in coronavirus death toll at 1100 GMT

PARIS AFP Oct13, 2020- The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,081,902 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 11:00 GMT Tuesday.   

At least 37,860,720 cases of coronavirus have been registered and of these, at least 26,184,600 are now considered recovered.   

On Monday, officials recorded 4,126 new deaths and 297,637 new cases worldwide.   

Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were India with 706 new deaths, followed by United States with 320 and Argentina with 318.   

Overall, the United States is the worst-hit country with 215,089 deaths from 7,804,643 cases and at least 3,106,728 people declared recovered.