Coronavirus cases pass 90 million worldwide, doubling in just 10 weeks
- Europe, which became the first region to report 25 million cases, remains the worst-affected area, followed by North America and Latin America
- Russia detects its first case of a highly infectious variant, Israel’s Netanyahu welcomes vaccine delivery, while South African hospitals are near capacity
The number of infections worldwide has doubled in just 10 weeks, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University on Sunday. Covid-19 infections had hit 45 million as recently as late October. As of early Monday, Johns Hopkins counted 90,260,464 infections confirmed by government and other entities tracking cases.
The United States, now with more than 22.2 million infections, has confirmed the most cases and most deaths in the world. The number of US cases was more than double that of India, which has recorded nearly 10.5 million infections.
Europe, which became the first region to report 25 million cases last week, remains the worst-affected area in the world, followed by North America and Latin America with 22.4 million and 16.3 million cases respectively. Europe has reported around 31 per cent of about 1.93 million coronavirus-related deaths globally. The United Kingdom, the worst-affected European country, crossed 3 million cases last Friday.
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Arizona remains a US Covid-19 hotspot with health officials on Sunday reporting more than 11,000 new cases for the third consecutive day, plus 105 more deaths.
That pushed the state’s grim figures to 618,546 cases and 10,141 known deaths since the pandemic began. Arizona Department of Health Services officials reported 11,021 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday. There were 11,650 cases and 197 more deaths reported on Friday with 11,094 additional cases and 98 deaths on Saturday.