Filenews 28 August 2022
Recorded coronavirus cases surpassed the threshold of 600 million on a global scale, with the death toll standing at 6.5 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
At 20:20 local time (03:20 today Sunday Cyprus time), the university of Baltimore's numbers indicated that 600,449,934 infections with the virus have been recorded since its appearance in China at the end of 2019.
By the same time, deaths due to COVID-19 amounted to 6,485,233.
The U.S., with 94,184,146 cases and 1,043,838 deaths due to the infection caused by the virus, remains the state of the world that has suffered by far the heaviest blow from the pandemic. These account for almost 16% of both cases and deaths. It is the first and only country to date that has exceeded 1 million deaths due to COVID-19.
India records the second highest number of cases (44,398,696), followed by France (34,662,834). Other countries that have recorded more than 20 million cases are still Brazil, Germany, Britain, South Korea and Italy, according to Johns Hopkins university numbers.
Experts believe that the actual death toll of the new coronavirus pandemic worldwide is much heavier. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated earlier this year that the number of victims of the pandemic, directly or indirectly, is probably closer to 15 million dead.
