REUTERS: The number of deaths worldwide linked to the novel coronavirus reached 150,000 on Friday (Apr 17), according to a Reuters tally.
The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan 9. It took 83 days for the first 50,000 deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 100,000.
It took another eight days to go from 100,000 to 150,000. Advertisement Advertisement The death toll is still far short of the so-called Spanish flu, which began in 1918 and is