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The United States is in the grip of a third wave of the coronavirus. (Archive)
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More than 60 million cases of the new coronavirus have been detected worldwide, according to a count from official sources compiled by AFP at 1830 GMT on Wednesday.
In total, there have been 60,014,291 infections worldwide, leading to 1,415,258 deaths, since the pandemic emerged in China late last year.
The counts, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization, likely reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries lack testing capacity, or only assess symptomatic or more severe cases.
The European region, including Russia, has had 17.1 million confirmed infections for nearly 388,000 deaths, making it the region with the most recorded cases.
In the last week, 1.7 million new cases have been documented in 52 countries in the European region, 10 percent less than the previous week, which shows that the spread of the pandemic there is slowing down.
The United States is in the grip of a third wave of the coronavirus.
The country is approaching 13 million confirmed cases with more than 260,000 deaths, or more than a fifth of all reported infections worldwide.
And the number of positive cases continues to rise, with an 11 percent increase in new infections detected in a week, or more than 1.2 million cases from 1.1 million the previous week.
Behind Europe, the regions with the highest number of cases are the United States and Canada (13 million, 272,183 deaths), Latin America and the Caribbean (12.6 million, 438,098 deaths) and Asia (12.1 million, 190,108 deaths).
It is followed by the Middle East (3.2 million cases, 75,700 deaths), Africa (2.1 million cases, 50,422 deaths) and Oceania (more than 30,000 cases, 941 deaths).
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