Number of Covid-19 infections exceeds 2.5 mln: WHO

The number of all infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus increased to over 2.5 million, that have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in December 2019, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) data. The number of deaths exceeded 170,000, but there were also more than 655,000 recoveries.

The range of the Covid-19 pandemic is still increasing rapidly. Thus, there are currently 1.6 million active infections.

The largest number of infections is in Europe (around 1.2 million), but in terms of individual countries, the first place is taken by the United States, where there are almost 800,000 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections. In Europe, the most cases are in Spain (over 204,000), Italy (over 181,000), France (over 155,000), Germany (over 147,000) and Great Britain (125,000).

(PAP)