The world passes a grim milestone during the coronavirus pandemic.
There are now at least 201,502 COVID-related deaths reported in the world.There are currently more than 2.8 million confirmed COVID cases around the globe, with the United States nearing the 1 million mark as of Saturday, with more than 924,000 confirmed instances of the novel virus. The U.S. also makes up around one-quarter of the global deaths with at least 53,275 as of Saturday.
At the current pace, confirmed global cases would surpass 3 million in the coming days -- more than the populations of several countries such as Qatar, Lithuania and Jamaica.
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