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The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide it topped 10 million on Sunday, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
The terrible milestone comes six months after the first cases were detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in mid-December, before continuing to spread across the world.
Covid-19 has infected at least 10,001,527 people and killed at least 499,123 worldwide.
The figure is recorded when countries like the United Kingdom ease confinement restrictions, yet the pandemic continues its course across nations. Germany, for example, which effectively handled the first wave, has an increase in new infections, a problem that experts say will repeat until a vaccine is found.
Other countries register more than 10,000 infections a day. In India, authorities are fighting to open a covid-19 treatment facility to deal with the increase in cases in the nation’s capital, New Delhi.
U.S It is the most affected country with the most deaths and confirmed cases worldwide. There are at least 2,510,323 coronavirus cases and 125,539 deaths from the disease in the country.
After halting the spread in May, coronavirus numbers have soared in the interior states, including Texas and Arizona. Now only two US states report a decline in new cases compared to last week: Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Florida reported 9,585 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, a record for a single day since the start of the pandemic. The number rivals New York’s peak in daily cases in early April.
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