The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed two million - and the pandemic has now claimed more than 120,000 lives.
The grim landmark comes as the epicentre of the global outbreak moves to the US, while scientists are warning that the UK could end up being Europe's worst affected country.
According to tracking website Worldometer, a total of 127,595 people have now died from the flu-like virus as it sweeps across the globe, while 491,481 have recovered.
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The true number of infections is likely to be much higher due to limited ability to test for Covid-19 in a number of countries.
Global infections hit one million on April 2, meaning that cases of the highly infectious virus have taken just 13 days to double after it spread to nearly every country in the world.
On Monday, the World Health Organisation's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that these numbers are likely to continue accelerating faster than they will decline.
“While Covid-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly," he said, speaking at a press conference in Geneva.
"In other words, the way down is much slower than the way up.
“That means control measures must be lifted slowly and with control. It cannot happen all at once.”
The US now has now overtaken Italy as the country with the highest number of deaths from coronavirus.
It has recorded 614,246 confirmed cases, while 26,064 people have died.
On Good Friday, it became the first country in the world to report more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day.
Meanwhile a government adviser has warned that the UK could end up being the "worst affected country in Europe".
Infectious diseases expert Sir Jeremy Farrar, who is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday that Britain's death rate could outstrip that of Italy and Spain, which currently have the highest death tolls.
However he also expressed hope the UK - which has recorded 93,873 infections and 12,107 deaths - is close to a point where the number of new cases is declining.
The official UK death toll from the coronavirus outbreak increased by at least 813 yesterday with England alone recording 744 more deaths.
The new UK total is 12,157 - although that includes only hospital deaths with the toll feared to be far higher when fatalities in care homes are taken into account.
It comes as a number of European countries have begun to lift some of the strictest social distancing measures which have been put into place to slow the spread of the deadly virus.
Spain has the world's second highest number of cases after the US, with 177,633 and 18,579 deaths, followed by Italy with 162,488 and 21,067 deaths.
France, meanwhile, has recorded 143,303 cases while 15,729 people have died.
Wuhan in China, where the virus first emerged in December, has now lifted its strict lockdown which lasted 11 weeks.
Residents are now allowed to leave the central Chinese city, where the global outbreak began, as the numbers of new cases has steadily decreased.
The Chinese government claims the city last month recorded its first week with no new cases.
A total of 82,295 infections have been recorded in China, and 3,342 deaths.
