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The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed three million on Thursday, according to the count made by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in the United States. That number is just over three months after hitting the two million threshold.

The pandemic took eight and a half months to reach one million deaths after the first confirmed death in China, and just three and a half months to surpass the second million on January 15.

This new threshold was crossed just over three months after the previous one, showing that the virus is still expanding. In turn, there are 140 million infections worldwide since the first case was reported in December 2019.

The United States continues to be the worst affected country in total numbers, with some 31.5 million cases and more than 566,000 deaths, according to JHU figures. Behind are India, with an estimated 14.5 million cases and over 175,000 deaths, and Brazil, with over 13.8 million infections and over 368,000 deaths.

If in the United States the epidemiological curve is down, on the contrary in Brazil and India it is growing rapidly and the two countries are the global epicenters of the pandemic.. In the South American giant since last month, nearly 3,000 daily deaths on average have been announced, nearly a quarter of the total deaths reported daily worldwide.

This figure is more than double the number of daily deaths recorded in mid-February and, if the data is taken from March 7, it is the country with the most daily deaths in the world.

Deaths are also accelerating in India: in the country, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants, more than a thousand deaths are recorded every day, nine times more than those reported in early March.

The increase is also occurring in the rate of infections: as of Thursday, it exceeded 234,000 daily cases, a record during the pandemic, while in early March it reported an average of around 15 000.

Mexico, for its part, is the third country in number of deaths, behind India, with more than 211,000 deaths, although it appears in the fourteenth place in the number of infections in the world.

In Europe, the country with the highest total of positive results is France, with around 5.3 million, while the United Kingdom is the fourth in number of deaths in the world with 127,000