<p class="">Confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases have hit the one million mark according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<h1>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the reported cases has grown exponentially from slightly over 500,000 confirmed cases reported globally just a week ago.</h1>
<p class="">As at the time of filing this report on Thursday evening, the figures</p>
<p class="">compiled by the John Hopkins University indicate that there are 1, 002,159 cases of the novel Coronavirus infection worldwide.</p>
<p class="">Figures released by worldometers.info is slightly different with 1, 005,774 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported worldwide.</p>
<p class="">Also figures released by worldometers.info on fatalities indicate that Italy remains the worst hit with 13,915 deaths, followed by Spain with a record of 10,096 deaths.</p>
<p class="">The United Staes continues to top the global chart in the number of infections with 236,339 confirmed cases, according to the John Hopkins University tally.</p>
<p class="">According to the data, China, where the virus broke out in December, has been pushed to the fifth position on the chart with 82,432 cases.</p>
<p class="">The John Hopkins University tally revealed that the death toll has hit 51,485 across the globe while the raging pandemic is affecting 181 countries and regions.</p>
<p class="">The worldometers.info tally shows a total number of 51,633 deaths recorded globally, while 210,555 has recovered from the dreaded viral disease.</p>
<p class="">Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has also reported 10 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 184 in the country.</p>
<p class="">The NCDC on its official Twitter page @NCDCgov wrote “Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 7 in Lagos and 3 in the FCT.</p>
<p class="">“As at 08:00 pm 2nd April there are 184 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.</p>
<p class="">“Twenty have been discharged with two deaths.”</p>