The number of newly infected Coronavirus around the world exceeded 15 million today, Wednesday, according to Reuters statistics. The pandemic is accelerating as countries continue to be divided over dealing with the crisis.
In the United States, which has the highest number of infections in the world, reaching 3.91 million cases; President Donald Trump warned that "the situation will likely get worse - unfortunately - before things get better."
The top 5 countries in terms of number of infections came after America: Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa, but - according to statistics - it appears that the fastest disease spread was in the Americas, where more than half of the world's infections and half of the deaths were recorded.
Canada also witnessed a sudden rise in the number of new infections with the Corona virus this week, after more than a month of recording a continuous decline in cases, and entering most of the country in the third phase of the reopening of the economy and the return of semi-normal life.
In Germany, this morning, the Robert Koch Institute for Control of Infectious and Non-communicable Diseases recorded 454 new infections with the new Corona virus within one day, according to data from local health departments.
In France, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reached 214,607 cases, as of 7:30 am this morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News Agency.
The health authorities in Russia announced today, Wednesday, the registration of 5 thousand and 862 new injuries, and 165 deaths, during the last 24 hours.
As for Australia, today it revealed 501 new cases of the emerging coronavirus, recording the highest number of infections since the epidemic began spreading on its soil 4 months ago, and the authorities warned of a new critical stage in the two largest cities in the country.
In Brazil, tests showed that more than 2.15 million people were infected with the virus, including President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 81,000 people had died.
Two South African ministers were hospitalized for Covid-19, while the total number of confirmed infections in Africa's largest industrial country was 372,628, and deaths reached 5,173.
Asian
In China, the Chinese National Health Commission announced on Wednesday that it had received reports of 14 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on the Chinese mainland yesterday, including 5 cases from abroad and 9 domestic infections, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Deaths due to illness are reported yesterday.
The death toll from confirmed cases of the virus in Pakistan increased today to 267,428 cases, after 1,332 new cases were recorded.
The number of injuries in India also rose to 1,192,915 cases, after 37,724 new injuries were recorded during the past 24 hours.
Japan, on Wednesday, launched a controversial tourism promotion campaign with taxpayer money, despite fears of an increase in the number of HIV infections.