The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the world has exceeded 90 million, according to statistics from the American Johns Hopkins University on Monday, January 11.
So, as of 3:15 Moscow time, 90 180 310 cases of COVID-19 were recorded around the world.
The United States is the leader in this indicator, accounting for almost a quarter of all infections – 22,374,351. India is in second place with 10,450,284 cases, and Brazil is in third place (8,075,998).
At the same time, 1,932,266 people died due to complications due to coronavirus, of which 373,797 in the United States, 202,631 in Brazil and 150,999 in India. In total, more than 49.9 million patients have been cured worldwide.
On January 8, World Health Organization (WHO) expert Maria van Kerkhove confirmed that a new strain of coronavirus found in the UK is spreading faster than the unmutated variant.
The day before, it became known that a new variant of COVID-19 had already been identified in 22 European countries.