Global deaths due to COVID-19 surpassed 1 million Monday, with the United States accounting for more than any other country.
The total number of global coronavirus deaths has reached 1 million, according to tracking from Johns Hopkins University. The weekly average number of new deaths reported globally has declined from its peak in April, but it is still alarmingly high. For the week ending April 16, roughly 7,100 new deaths were reported daily. In the final week of September, about 5,300 people died each day, according to New York Times data.
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Israel and several Western European countries that have reported surges in new coronavirus cases have yet to see a sharp increase in new deaths, which often lag behind case reporting. Health officials in Israel and Spain have already reported an increase in COVID-19 deaths over the past two weeks.
