A woman exercises at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 26, 2020. (Photo by Rahel Patrasso/Xinhua)

The United States remains the worst-hit nation by the pandemic, with 6,262,989 cases and 188,711 deaths, accounting for more than one fifth of the global death toll.

NEW YORK, Sept. 6 -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 880,000 on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The global deaths from the coronavirus reached 880,779, with a total of more than 26,951,838 cases worldwide as of 2:28 p.m. (1828 GMT), the CSSE data showed.