About one hundred thousand new cases were registered in one day.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

In India, the coronavirus is spreading faster than in any other country. A record 96,551 new cases were registered on Friday, bringing the number of coronavirus infections in the country to 4.5 million. The situation is worse only in the United States, where there were 6,396,073 infected people.

India is also showing an increasing trend in deaths, with a daily death toll exceeding a thousand in the past ten days, and 1,209 died on Friday. India has a total of 76,271 deaths from coronavirus.

Already 28,064,801 people have been infected worldwide by the coronavirus epidemic, with 908,257 deaths and 18,921,120 recovered, according to a summary Friday from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.



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