China News Service, May 21 (Xinhua) The latest statistics of the new crown epidemic situation released by Johns Hopkins University on the 21st show that there have been more than 5 million confirmed cases worldwide. Prior to this, the number of confirmed cases of the new crown worldwide reached 4 million at 16:32 on the 9th, Eastern Time (4:32 on the 10th, Beijing time). The number of confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide increased from 4 million to 5 million, which took about 11 days.
Image source: Screenshot of the Johns Hopkins University statistics page.
The latest data shows that as of 1:32 pm Beijing time on the 21st, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in the world has reached 5000038 cases, and 328172 deaths.
The United States is still the country with the most severe epidemics, with a total of 1551853 confirmed cases and a total of 93439 deaths.
Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy also have countries with more than 200,000 confirmed cases.
In his speech on the 20th, WHO Director General Tan Desai said that in this pandemic, the world "has a long way to go."
Tan Desai also expressed his gratitude to the member states for unanimously passing the resolution on the new coronary pneumonia epidemic at the World Health Assembly. The resolution establishes a clear roadmap for key actions and assigns responsibilities to WHO and member states to maintain and accelerate national and global responses.
On the other hand, after the U.S. government threatened to end the payment of dues to WHO, Tan Desai said that three years ago, WHO had begun to transform and strive to expand the donor base and improve the "quality" of funds, hoping to solve the financial challenges facing .