Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 12 million July 08, 2020 at 04:11PM

The first case was reported in China in early January and it took 149 days to hit 6 million cases. It has taken less than a third of that time – just 39 days – to double to 12 million cases, the tally shows. There have been more than 546,000 deaths linked to the virus so far.