3.5 mln people infected with coronavirus worldwide

Reuters reported on Monday that according to its data the number of coronavirus infections in the world has reached 3.5 million, and nearly 247,000 people have died on Covid-19. Experts point out that data on the number of infections and deaths are underestimated.

The US and Europe are still the regions where most infections and fatalities are recorded, but numbers for both infection and death are increasing in Latin America, Africa and Russia. Virologists believe that these data are much lower than the actual scale of infections and fatalities.

AFP reported that at least 3,500,517 people have been infected and 246,893 of them have died. The agency emphasized that such data does not reflect the real situation, because in many countries only very severe cases of Covid-19 are tested.

The daily scale of infections in the world has dropped from about 13 percent in mid-March to 2-3 percent last week, but the loosening of restrictive regulations is therefore controversial.

"We can easily wait for the second or even the third wave of the infection) because in many places there is no herd immunity. Such resistance arises when about 60 percent of the population recovers from infection with the virus," Peter Collignon, infectious disease specialist and microbiologist from Canberra Hospital, said.

(PAP)