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About 30 percent of those cases are from the United States, although the fastest growing outbreak is in Latin America, which now accounts for roughly 16 percent of all cases. There has been 109,497 deaths from COVID-19 in the US as the number of confirmed cases soars towards two million with 1,909,077 infections, according to the latest Johns Hopkins University data.

Globally, deaths from the novel coronavirus are approaching 400,000, Reuters reports.

The United States accounts for about one-quarter of all fatalities but deaths in South America are rapidly rising.

The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in just five months is now equal to the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases.

There are fears Brazil, which has recently seen their death rapidly climb, may overtake the United Kingdom to have the second-largest number of deaths in the world.

The global death toll is believed to be higher than the officially reported 400,000 as many countries lack supplies to test all victims and some countries do not count deaths outside of a hospital.

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