World Coronavirus Dispatch: Japan's Shinzo Abe resigns due to poor health

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy.He said he had decided to step down now to avoid a political vacuum as the country copes with its novel coronavirus outbreak. Read more here...
 
Let’s look at the global statistics:                                            

Total Confirmed Cases: 24,481,164

Change Over Yesterday: 303,031

Total Deaths: 832,158

Total Recovered: 16,02,12,641
 
Nations hit with most cases: US (5,869,032), Brazil (3,761,391), India (3,387,500), Russia (977,730) and Peru (621,997)
 
Source:Johns Hopkins