August 12, 2020 – The total number of international COVID-19 exhibits surpassed the 20 million mark on Tuesday, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported.
The number of cases in the U.S. It has increased exponentially since the virus was first reported in China about 6 and a half months ago.
The total number of instances reached the one million mark on April 2, CNN reported. Ten million instances were registered at the end of June. It took less than 6 weeks to double that number as the highest number of instances in the United States and Latin America.
The number of cases is much higher due to test limitations and the increased number of inflamed people who have no symptoms.
Deaths have also increased. More than 737,000 people have died worldwide, Johns Hopkins said.
The countries with the highest instances are the United States (almost 5.1 million with more than 163,000 deaths), Brazil (3 million instances and 101,000 deaths), India (2.2,000 000 2 million instances and 45,000 deaths), Russia (895,000 instances and 15,000 deaths) and South Africa (563,000 cases and 10,600 deaths).
Africa registered its case 1 million last week. The average seven days of new has been more than 250,000 in the more than two weeks, CNN reported.
On Monday, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, suggested that governments take more powerful action against the virus.
Speaking at a press conference before the 2 million case was announced, he said that countries such as France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom had primary epidemics that still had to involve them.
“I know that many of you are grieving and that this is a difficult time for the world,” he said. “But I have to be clear, there are green outbreaks of hope and no matter where a country, region, town or city is, it’s never too past because of the opposite of the epidemic.”
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Cnn. “The world is passing the 20 million reported cases of coronavirus”
World Health Organization. Opening remeaths of the Director-General of WHO at the COVID-19 press convention – 10 August 2020
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