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May 18, 2020 Coronavirus deaths worldwide have exceeded the 315,000 threshold: this is what emerges from the count of the American university Johns Hopkins. The total deaths are now 315,225 out of a total of 4,716,513 cases. 1,734,578 people have been healed so far.

The United States is the country with the highest number of deaths (89,562), followed by the United Kingdom (34,716) and Italy (31,908).

The Russian has recorded 8,926 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours for a total of 290,678 infections in accordance with the Russian authorities, an increase of 3.2%. There are 2,722 deaths, 91 more than yesterday. In Moscow, the area most affected by the pandemic, the increase in cases slowed down, with 3,238 new infections compared to 3,855 the previous day. After the Russian capital, the Moscow region ranks by number of cases, with 921 infections, and St. Petersburg with 425 new cases.

L ' India recorded its largest wave of new cases of coronavirus in a day with 5,242 new cases and 157 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the infection rate in the country to more than 96 thousand, the highest in Asia. The country now has 3,029 victims reported due to Covid-19.

There are more than 241 thousand coronavirus cases confirmed in Brazil , while 16,118 deaths, 485 in the last 24 hours. The Brazilian Ministry of Health reported, which speaks of 241,080 infected, 7,938 more than yesterday. As for the healed people, 94,122 those who defeated the infection, equal to 39 percent of those who fell ill. 

The China reported seven new cases from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a slight increase from the five yesterday and confirmed the first case of infection in Shanghai in over a month.