There have been 2,363,210 reported COVID-19 infections around the world, from which 164,016 people have died, based on official sources.
The United States has the most deaths of any country with 40,585 fatalities.
Italy is the second hardest-hit country, with 23,660 dead. Spain follows with 20,453, then France with 19,718 and Britain with 16,060.
With 103,255 deaths, Europe is the hardest-hit continent.
Chinese scientists say the virus was probably first transmitted to humans at a Wuhan market that sold wildlife, but conspiracy theories that it came from a virology lab have been brought into the mainstream by US government officials.
“There’s no way this virus came from us,” Yuan Zhiming, the head of the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, says in an interview with Chinese state media.
