Closer cooperation needed as global COVID-19 cases top 100M - China.org.cn

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 100 million on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The global case count reached 100,032,461, with a total of 2,149,818 deaths worldwide, as of 2:22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), the CSSE data showed.

The United States reported the most cases and deaths around the world, which stood at 25,362,794 and 423,010, respectively. India recorded 10,676,838 cases, ranking second in the world. Brazil followed with 8,871,393 cases and the world's second largest death toll of 217,664.

Countries with more than 2 million cases also include Russia, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany and Colombia, while other countries with over 50,000 deaths include India, Mexico, Britain, Italy, France, Russia, Iran, Spain, Germany and Colombia, according to the CSSE tally.

As the hardest-hit country in the world, the United States has been witnessing more and more hospitals and funeral homes reaching capacity or expecting to soon. Healthcare workers across the country, whose overwork has led to not only physical burn-out but also growing anxieties, frustrations and even mental health problems, expressed their concern over scarce resources such as masks, gloves and suits.

Tarrant County in the U.S. state of Texas is using temporary coolers to hold bodies as COVID-19 deaths rise. In Los Angeles, church gyms are served as hospital units, and ambulance crews are told not to take COVID-19 patients with little chance of survival to hospitals.