Coronavirus pandemic has already claimed 3 mln lives
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SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, causing the life-threatening Covid-19 disease, is not abating. The number of new cases of coronavirus infection has almost doubled globally in the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen to date during a pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Friday.
According to data from the American Johns Hopkins University from Saturday, the infection has so far been found in 140 million people around the world, and 3 million people have died.
The largest number of infections, over 31.5 million, was recorded in the USA, followed by India with over 14 million, and the third – Brazil with over 13 million. Fourth and fifth places are France (over 5.2 million) and Russia (over 4.6 million).
In the world, 3,002,292 people have died as a result of the coronavirus. The USA is in the lead with over half a million deaths, in Brazil over 368,000 people have died, over 211,000 in Mexico, over 175,000 in India, and over 127,000 in Great Britain.
The countries with the highest number of deaths per population are the Czech Republic (265 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants), Hungary (256), Bosnia and Herzegovina (237), Montenegro (226), and Bulgaria (216).
