The pandemic already leaves more than 300 million cases in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University
The coronavirus pandemic has left more than 300 million cases in the world to date, with about 5.5 million deaths due to covid-19, according to data published this Friday by Johns Hopkins University through its website. The center has indicated that so far 300,317,508 infections have been officially confirmed since the declaration of the pandemic in March 2020, with 5,472,694 deaths. Thus he has detailed that during the last day more than 2.4 million positives have been confirmed worldwide, with about 7,000 deaths, amid a rebound in the figures driven by the spread of the omicron variant. In this sense, the world surpassed on January 3 for the first time the barrier of two million cases in 24 hours, which it has registered daily since then, after closing 2021 for the first time above one million daily infections.
The United States is the most affected country in total figures worldwide, with about 58.5 million cases and almost 834,000 deaths. Behind it is India, with about 35.2 million infections and more than 483,000 deaths. In contrast, during the last 28 days the countries that have confirmed the most infections are the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. The United States has added more than 8.8 million infections, while the United Kingdom is close to 3.4 million positives. For their part, the French authorities have confirmed more than three million cases in 28 days, while Italy, Spain and Germany are the other countries that have reported more than one million cases in this period, which places Europe as main epicenter of the pandemic at the moment. (Ep)
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