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The number of coronavirus infections in the world since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 42 million. This was reported on the website of the Johns Hopkins University project.
According to the latest data, the number of cases of infection has reached 42,024,647. Over the entire period, more than 1.14 million have died, and over 28 million cases have recovered.
Earlier, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus warned that the next few months of the pandemic will be very difficult.
An outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. On March 11, WHO announced that the situation could be characterized as a pandemic.
