The number of people infected with coronavirus in the world exceeded 19 million. This is evidenced by the data portal Worldometers.
According at 5:30 on August 7, in the world infected 19 252 483 people. Only 717 564 were killed and more than 12.3 million cured.
According to the project of the Johns Hopkins University, the number of cases also exceeded 19 million, but is 19 007 938. In the first place are the USA (4 881 974), second place goes to Brazil (2 912 212), followed by India (1 964 536). The top five countries with the highest number of the infected also includes Russia (870 187) South Africa (538 184).
The number of infections increased by a million in less than a week. 2 August, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world exceeded 18 million.
June 8 Chapter who Tedros Aden Hebraeus said about the deterioration of the situation with coronavirus at the global scale, and confirmed the improvement of the situation in Europe. June 29, the organization said that the spread of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 in the world is accelerating.
Outbreak of pneumonia COVID-19 caused by a new type of coronavirus, was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. On 11 March, the who announced that the situation can be characterized as a pandemic.
