Worldwide coronavirus death toll hits one million, according to latest data

The number of people who have died of coronavirus around the world has passed the grim milestone of one million, according to the latest data.

So far 1,000,502 people have died, according to Worldometer, which calculates the totals from sources including governments and NGOs across the globe.

The data also found that there have been 33,210,246 cases and 24,532,355 people have recovered.

Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre, which also collates worldwide totals, has a figure just shy of the million milestone at 995,352.

It comes after Boris Johnson called on world leaders to unite in the fight against coronavirus as he criticised the lack of coordination so far.

The Prime Minister said the notion of the international community looked “tattered” following the crisis.

He warned that “everyone will lose” unless countries work in conjunction to defeat the virus.

It comes after a further 17 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday. This brings the UK total to 41,988.

The Government said that, as of 9am, there had been a further 5,693 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, taking the overall number of cases confirmed to 434,969.

Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 57,600 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

In the US, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday reported 7,059,087 total Covid-19 cases.

This is an increase of 49,871 infections from its previous count.

Meanwhile, the nation's death toll had risen by 853 to 204,033.

The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.

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