Global COVID-19 cases top 3 million, one-third of them in U.S.

Global COVID-19 cases crossed the 3 million mark Monday, with nearly one-third of them in the United States.

Medical workers tend to a patient in the emergency COVID-19 ward at the San Carlo Hospital in Milan, Italy, April 16, 2020. [Photo: AP]

Global confirmed COVID-19 cases reached(达到 dádào)3,002,303 as of 1 p.m.(1700 GMT), and a total of 208,131 people worldwide have died(死亡 sǐwáng) of the disease, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The United States(美国 Měiguó), which remains the hardest-hit, reported 972,969 cases(病例 bìnglì) and more than 55,000 deaths related to coronavirus after the first case was reported in Washington state in January.

New York has 17, 515 deaths, more than any other state in the country. It's also the state with the highest number of confirmed cases -- 292,027.

Spain(西班牙 Xībānyá) and Italy(意大利 Yìdàlì) followed with 229,422 cases and 199,414 cases, respectively.

Other countries with over 100,000 cases included France(法国 Fǎguó), Germany(德国 Déguó), the United Kingdom(英国 Yīngguó) and Turkey(土耳其 Tǔ'ěrqí), the CSSE data showed.

(Story includes material sourced from CGTN and Xinhua News Agency.)

达到<动词 v.> reach; arrive at

E.g.

Qùnián tāmen de biānjìng màoyì dádào yī diǎn sān yì měiyuán.

去年他们的边境贸易达到1.3亿美元。

Their boarder trade hit 130 million US dollars last year.

Dào èrlíng èryī nián, zhè yī shùzì yùjì jiāng dádào sì bǎi wàn.

到2021年,这一数字预计将达到400万。

By 2021, that figure is expected to reach 4 million.