The number of registered cases of coronavirus infection exceeded yesterday saturday the milestone of 600 million globallyaccording data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

As of 20:20 (local time; 03:20 this Sunday Greek time), data from the University of Baltimore showed that 600,449,934 infections had been reported since the virus emerged in China at the end of 2019.

Until the same time deaths from COVID-19 amounted to 6,485,233 people.

USAwith 94,184,146 cases and 1,043,838 deaths due to the infection caused by the virus, remains the country in the world that has experienced the hardest blow from the pandemic.

In the US, it accounts for almost 16% of both morbidity and mortality. It is the first and only country to date to have more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

India ranks second in the number of cases (44,398,696), followed by France (34,662,834).

Other countries with over 20 million cases are still Brazil, Germany, UK, South Korea and Italyaccording to Johns Hopkins University.

Experts believe that the real number of victims of the new coronavirus pandemic around the world is much higher. World Health Organization (WHO) Earlier this year, it was estimated that the death toll from the pandemic, either directly or indirectly, was likely approaching 15 million.

Source: RES-IPE