WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Global COVID-19 cases crossed the 3 million mark Monday, with nearly one-third of them in the United States as business economists' outlook about the country's economy got darkened.
Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 3 million on Monday, reaching 3,002,303 as of 1 p.m. (1700 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 208,131 people worldwide have died of the disease, according to the CSSE.
The United States, which remains the hardest-hit, reported 972,969 cases and 55,118 deaths. Spain and Italy followed with 229,422 cases and 199,414 cases, respectively.
Other countries with over 100,000 cases included France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Turkey, the CSSE date showed.
DARENED ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
A majority of U.S. business economists has a darkened outlook for the country's economy since the virus set in, according to a new survey released Monday by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
The outlook for inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (real GDP) in 2020 reversed sharply, with 86 percent of respondents expecting a contraction, said the survey conducted April 13-16 among 107 NABE members on business conditions in their firms or industries.
The April 2020 NABE Business Conditions Survey "represents a very different world than the one we inhabited during the last survey in January," said NABE President Constance Hunter, chief economist at KPMG.
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