A staggering quarter of a million people worldwide have now succumbed to the coronavirus, according to figures reported on Monday.
At least 251,059 deaths from COVID-19, and more than 3.5 million confirmed cases in total have been reported around the globe, according to a real-time tracker from Johns Hopkins University.
About a quarter of the fatalities, 68,689, were in the US, which also had a third of the cases.
New York State alone saw close to 19,420 deaths and accounted for 318,953 of the cases.
