Covid-19: Caseload reaching 20 million as 725,334 are reported dead from virus

A filepic showing a woman passing a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery adorned with tributes to victims of Covid-19 in New York. America's failure so far to contain the spread of the coronavirus as it moves across the country has been met with astonishment and alarm on both sides of the Atlantic. - AP

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9: More than 19.65 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 725,334​ have died, according to an official tally.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were reported in China in December 2019.