COVID-19 Global Death Toll Surpasses 100,000
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We ran the numbers: There are 2787 news articles covering this topic. 41% (1135) are left leaning, 31% (852) center, 29% (800) right leaning.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed that the global death toll is more than 103,000 and the number of confirmed cases worldwide is more than 1.7 million. While left-leaning articles highlight responses to the coronavirus pandemic across the globe, right-leaning articles highlight the coronavirus death toll in the United States.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that the death toll in the United States surpassed that of Spain. The article also notes that Tokyo’s governor requested the closure of a range of businesses during a state of emergency, and Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, went into a partial lockdown amid fears that the country’s understaffed health care system could easily be overwhelmed.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that the U.S. has struggled with the world’s largest reported outbreak so far, with more than 5,800 deaths in New York City alone. Further, the World Health Organization said that Thursday marked 100 days since the group was notified about the first confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
A right-leaning article by New York Post highlights that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases leaped by nearly 10,000 between Thursday to Friday morning. In the United States, more than 16,700 people have been killed by the virus.
From the left
Global coronavirus cases pass 1.5 million and deaths near 100000: live updates
New York Times