Covid-19: over 2 million people killed, more than 94 million infected
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More than 94.45 million infections have been detected worldwide since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 has killed more than 2.02 million people, AFP said on Sunday, based on official country statistics and World Health Organization (WHO) data.
On Saturday, 658,387 new cases were diagnosed worldwide, 13,870 died, according to AFP.
The highest mortality among infected people compared to the country's population was found in Belgium, where per 100,000 there are 176 deaths of Covid-19 in the population. In Slovenia, it is 151 deaths, in Italy 135, in Bosnia 134, and in the Czech Republic 134 deaths per 100,000 residents.
The country most affected by the pandemic is still the USA, where, according to Johns Hopkins University, 395,851 patients have already died and 23.75 million infections have been diagnosed.
Other countries where the epidemic has spread particularly well is Brazil, where 209,296 people died, 8.45 million were infected; India – 152,274 deaths, 10.55 million infected; Mexico – 140,241 deaths, 1.63 million infected and Great Britain – 88,590 deaths, 3.36 million infected.
WHO on Wednesday warned that the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic may be more difficult than the first, due to the way the coronavirus spreads, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, where more infectious variants are circulating.
(PAP) https://stooq.pl/n/?f=1399392&c=0&p=4+22
