Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide exceed one million

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has risen above one million, according to the new tally from Johns Hopkins University on Thursday afternoon.

A total of 1,002,159 people have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus across the world, with a death toll of 51,485, while more than 200,000 patients have recovered, showed the tally updated by the university's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

The United States now has the most cases, with more than 242,000 infections confirmed.