Coronavirus live news: Global cases top 20m as WHO chief says ‘it’s never too late to turn outbreak around'

Deaths likely to pass 750,000 this week, says WHO; US weekly deaths fall 16%; EU health agency calls for new lockdowns; Follow the latest updates

Here are the ten countries with the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases.

The US accounts for more than one in four cases worldwide:

There are more than 20m known coronavirus infections worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, with 20,001,0019 currently confirmed.

Cases worldwide have doubled in just six weeks, and have risen 200-fold since mid-March. Deaths have increased from more than 4,000 globally at the time of the WHO declaration to more than 730,000 now.

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