Updated at 6:56 p.m. ET
As of Sunday, nearly three months since the first confirmed case of the coronavirus was reported in the United States, there are over 746,300confirmed cases of the virus in the country, .
Cases of COVID-19 have been reported in , according to the World Health Organization. And according to the Johns Hopkins data, over 2,382,000 people have been infected globally.
The disease has been , to the , which even before the pandemic hit was mired in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. In the United Kingdom, 596 people died from the virus on Saturday,pushing the nation's death toll above 16,000,according to the Department for Health and Social Care.
As of 9am 19 April, 482,063 tests have concluded, with 21,626 tests on 18 April.
— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk)
372,967 people have been tested of which 120,067 tested positive.
As of 5pm on 18 April, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 16,060 have sadly died.
In the U.S., which has more cases than any other nation, another on Saturday and nearly 1,900 more people infected with the virus died.
In some parts of the country, officials have been encouraged by some slowing signs of growth in the number of deaths and new hospitalizations. In New York, the nation's hardest-hit state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the state is Cuomo said that 507 people died Saturday, down 43 from Friday.
Still, as the number of coronavirus cases continues to mount nationally, President Trump has made clear in recent days . Some U.S. governors are gradually easing social-distancing restrictions, as is the case in Florida, .
In Maryland, where COVID-19 deaths , hundreds of citizens in Annapolis, the state capital. as people protested in Michigan, Minnesota, Utah and Oregon.
As of Sunday afternoon, more than 40,400 American lives have been claimed in the pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins data. Worldwide, more than 164,000 people have died as a result of the coronavirus. Of those infected globally, more than 611,791 have recovered.
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