Coronavirus updates: Global death toll passes 300,000 as it happened - BBC News
The pandemic passes another sad milestone, of 300,000 deaths, with 1.5m having recovered, on 14 May.
Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than four million confirmed cases in 188 countries.

With more than 1.3 million cases, the US has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world. It has also recorded more than 80,000 deaths.

The state of New York has been particularly badly affected, with more than 27,000 deaths.

Here are our latest charts and other visuals tracking the global outbreak.

In the UK, another 428 deaths were announced on Thursday, bringing the official total number of deaths to 33,614.

But the average number of daily deaths reported has been trending downward for weeks now. Nonetheless, as experts have said, the curve shoots up quickly but takes a much longer time to come down.

All the latest data on the UK outbreak can be found here.