More than two million COVID-19 cases now reported worldwide - Reuters tally

Paramedics bring a patient into the emergency center at Maimonides Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The number of cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide passed two million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally.

The total reached 2,001,548 cases after the United Kingdom reported its latest figures. It took 83 days to reach the first million cases worldwide and just 14 days for the second million.

The most serious pandemic in a century has killed 131,101 people around the world, according to the tally.

A medical worker takes care of patient Maria Mylona, who suffers from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Sotiria hospital, in Athens, Greece, April 9, 2020. Picture taken April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

The epicentre has moved from China, where the new coronavirus first emerged in December, to the United States, which now has the highest death toll.

Countries vary in how much they test for the respiratory disease, which can cause only mild symptoms, and the actual number of people infected is likely to be much higher than the number of recorded cases.

(Reporting by Cate Cadell; Editing by Toby Chopra)