The number of global Covid-19 infections surpassed a new scary milestone
Figures from Reuters show the number of infections Covid-19 Globally, the number of cases exceeded 500 million today, April 14, when the sub-variant BA.2 of the Omicron variant is raging in many Asian and European countries.
Variant BA.2 is currently believed to be increasing the number of Covid-19 infections in China and has pushed the number of infections to a record high in Europe. In there, Shanghai is battling the worst outbreak in China since the first cases were announced in Wuhan in late 2019.
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While, Korea taking the lead world on the average number of new infections per day, recorded more than 182,000 new infections / day, accounting for one in four infections globally, according to a Reuters analysis.
Some European countries are currently seeing the number of new infections level off, or even decline, but the continent still records more than 1 million infections every two days, according to Reuters.
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Although the number of infections Covid-19 With the recent increase in Asia and Europe in recent times, the US is still the country with the highest number of infections since the outbreak of the pandemic, with 80.41 million cases, followed by India (43.04). million cases) and Brazil (30.14 million cases). So far, more than 6.5 million people globally have died from Covid-19, according to Reuters.
Scientists continue to emphasize that vaccines play an important role in avoiding the catastrophe caused by Covid-19. About 64.8% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, but only 14.8% of the population in low-income countries has received at least one dose, according to Reuters.
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