By AFP
More than 10 million cases of the new coronavirus have been officially declared around the world, half of them in Europe and the United States, according to an AFP tally at 0930 GMT Sunday based on official sources.
At least 10,003,942 infections, including over 500,000 deaths, have been registered globally.
Europe remains the hardest hit continent with 2,637,546 cases including 195,975 fatalities, while the United States has 2,510,323 infections including 125,539 deaths.
The rate of infections worldwide continues to rise, with one million new cases recorded in just six days.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases and some do not have the capacity to carbide-scaled scale testing.
Coronavirus cases worldwide have exceeded 10 million. This is what emerges from the data of Johns Hopkins University, according to which the death toll is close to 500 thousand. Statistics from the American university indicate that there are 10,001,527 infections worldwide and 499,024 deaths. Instead, the people healed are 5,062,145. The situation in China is serious: 500,000 in lockdown near Beijing.
