The world's COVID-19 death toll topped four million today, the US-based real-time statistics reference website worldometers.info reported.
According to the website, the novel coronavirus global death toll stood at 4,002,629 at 6:30 p.m. (Macau time), when the world's total number of reported COVID-19 cases amounted to 185.0 million, which included 169.3 million recovered cases.
Most COVID-19 fatalities were reported in the US (621,335), Brazil (525,229) and India (403,310). According to the website, COVID-19 is affecting 220 countries and territories.
Macau's COVID-19 tally stands at 55 - with zero deaths. Macau confirmed its first novel coronavirus case on January 22 last year. All the cases in Macau have been classified by the Health Bureau (SSM) as imported or as "connected to imported cases."
According to worldometers.info, the global population stands at 7.87 billion.
