US virus death toll passes 36,000 as Trump clashes with governors, China

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that world coronavirus deaths passed 150,000 Friday, with the US recording 700,000 confirmed infections and 36,000 deaths, far more than any other country in both categories.

As COVID-19 fatalities mount in the US and hard-hit Western European countries, fresh data on rising infections and deaths in Africa showed the virus is leaving no continent untouched as it marches around the globe.

More than half of humanity - 4.5 billion people - were confined to their homes, with evidence mounting of social distancing’s success in slowing the pandemic.