A citizen wearing a mask is passing in front of the COVID-19 quarantine notice board hanging on the streets of Manhattan, New York, USA on the 25th. New York = AFP Yonhap News
The cumulative number of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19) around the world has exceeded 100 million. In 13 months after the first patient was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on December 31, 2019, 1.3% of the world’s population was infected. It took 16 days to increase from 90 million confirmed cases to 10 million.
World O Meter, an international statistics site that aggregates the current status of the global Corona 19, announced that as of 3:30 a.m. on the 26th (KST), the cumulative number of corona 19 confirmed patients around the world is 110,000. The cumulative death was 2.14,141.
The US has an overwhelming number of patients. Until this day, more than 25.73 million people were confirmed. It accounts for a quarter of the total number of confirmed cases worldwide. The death toll is also close to 430,000. India followed by 16.7 million and Brazil with 8.85 million. Russia, the UK and France also have 3 million confirmed cases, and Spain, Italy, Turkey and Germany also have 2 million cases.
Corona 19 vaccination has begun around the world, but the fight against the virus still looks tough. With the addition of mutant viruses that have been found one after another in the UK and South Africa, the size of the infection has not seldom decreased. The U.S. plans to speed up vaccination and limit the spread of Corona 19. At a press conference on the 25th, US President Joe Biden emphasized, “The target for the next 100 days to be vaccinated against Corona 19 is 150 million people, not 100 million people.” did.
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