As global deaths approach one million, new hot spots continue to emerge. As the world moves toward another morbid threshold in the pandemic, a coronavirus death toll of one million, the countries where fatalities are increasing fastest remain spread out across the globe, with new hot spots constantly emerging. On Saturday, India, the world’s second-most populous nation, continued to lead in daily virus-related deaths, with about 7,700 over the most recent seven-day period. Those four countries account for more than half of the world’s total deaths from the virus, according to the Times database. New hot spots are also emerging in smaller countries like Israel, which led the world in new cases per capita over the past week.

Source: New York Times September 27, 2020 12:00 UTC