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A doctor holds a vial containing a swab sample as he conducts a test for novel coronavirus.

Members of the medical staff of Klinicare secure a stretcher as they transfer a coronavirus patient in Brussels.

Health workers put on protective gear at the new Covid Campus Center, a facility of the hospital complex of the Universus Campus Bio-Medical Polyclinic in Rome, Italy.

Medical staff push the stretcher with a patient infected with the COVID-19 on a platform of the Gare d'Austerlitz train station.

Medical staff in full protective gear carry a patient on a stretcher down a street in Naples.

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More than 1 million people worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to the latest data.

The gut-wrenching data from Johns Hopkins University also show a death toll topping 50,000.

At 4 p.m. Thursday, 1,002,159 people were confirmed infected across the globe while 51,485 people have died.

The US has more COVID-19 cases than any other country — with 236,339 confirmed to have been sickened by the virus, and 5,648 deaths.

The rising infection and death tally also comes as the virus’ economic toll mounts, with US jobless claims up nearly 10 million in the past two weeks, federal Labor Department stats revealed Thursday.