Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of cases of coronavirus infection in the world has exceeded 110 million. This information was confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on its website on Saturday, February 20.
The total number of infected has reached 110 384 747, having increased by more than 381 thousand per day.
According to the Johns Hopkins University project, the number of infections has already approached 111 million, with 110,903,820 cases worldwide. More than 2.45 million people have died, and over 62.5 million have recovered.
On January 28, WHO confirmed that there are 100 million people infected with coronavirus in the world.
Earlier, the WHO told about the pandemic paradox: on the one hand, the start of vaccination gives the world hope for an early end to the pandemic. At the same time, more and more new, often more infectious, mutations of the virus are emerging, which leads to tougher restrictive measures.
An outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. Initially, it was believed that the source of the new infection was the seafood market. At the same time, WHO stated that it did not have verified information that this market was indeed the source of the coronavirus.