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More than 80 million confirmed cases of the new coronavirus have been reported worldwide since the pandemic began a year ago, around 1.76 million people have died, according to AFP. As of Sunday night (December 27), COVID-19 cases were reported. Mutated in many other nations
From AFP’s count According to official data at 3:00 pm on Sunday (December 27) in Thailand, the total cumulative number of infections worldwide was 80,145,185 and 1,756,060 deaths. The average number of new infections is 580,000 people a day.
However, according to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University on the same night, the number of infections rose to nearly 80,700,000 and more than 1,763,133 deaths.
AFP benchmarks Europe is the most severely affected region of the world. More than 25 million people were infected on Friday (December 25) and 546,000 people died.
After Europe, the United States and Canada were the second most affected regions, with 346,636 deaths out of 19,479,293 infected, according to AFP as of Sunday night.
In second place was Latin America and the Caribbean. In which 15,139,172 cases were infected and 496,524 deaths, Asians found 13,670,9588 cases and 215,100 deaths. The Middle East reported 3,887,085 cases and 88,611 deaths. Africa found 2,640,778 cases and 62,234 deaths. And Oceania, 30,919 cases and 944 deaths were found.
Amid the global COVID-19 outbreak, there is hope. When many regions have started their vaccination programs, Europe recently launched a COVID-19 vaccination program on Sunday, with retirees and medical workers lining up for the vaccine against the pandemic that has destroyed the economy and killed people. Worldwide, more than 1.7 million
The vaccination program has become more urgent. Due to concerns about new strains of the new coronavirus. That is related to the rapid spread of the infection in the UK and South Africa.
Mutant cases of the new coronavirus have also been found in Australia, Hong Kong and Europe. It has recently been found in Sweden, France, Norway, and the island of Madeira in Portugal. It had previously been found in Germany, Japan and Denmark, however, until now, scientists say there is no evidence to suggest that the developed vaccine is “unacceptable.” It will be less effective in treating COVID-19 mutants.
(Source: AFP / Reuters)
