The global coronavirus cases have surpassed 50.8 million and the deaths have surged to 1,262,370, states the Johns Hopkins University.
By Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update that the total caseload and death toll stood at 50,812,345 and 1,262,372, respectively.
According to the CSSE, the United States is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 10,051,722 and 238,201, respectively.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 8,553,657, while the country's death toll soared to 126,611.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed cases are Brazil (5,675,032), France (1,856,292), Russia (1,781,997), Spain (1,381,218), Argentina (1,250,499), the UK (1,216,747) and Colombia (1,149,068), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 162,628.
The countries with a death toll above 20,000 are Mexico (95,027), the UK (49,329), Italy (41,750), France (41,049), Spain (39,345), Iran (38,749), Peru (34,879), Argentina (33,907), Colombia (32,974) and Russia (30,546).
