<Anchor> The
number of corona patients worldwide has now exceeded 50 million.
It took 44 days to reach 20 million after surpassing 10 million in June, but it took only 21 days, so 3 weeks to reach 40 million to 50 million.
The situation is particularly serious in the US and Europe, and the problem is that it gets colder every day.
In general, the virus becomes more active in cold weather and more time is spent indoors in winter, so experts are warning that a pandemic could come again this winter.
This is Jung Joon-hyung.
<Reporter> The
spread of Corona 19 in the United States is actually heading out of control.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases has already exceeded 10 million, and there are more than 120,000 new confirmed cases a day.
In particular, the number of confirmed cases snowballed during the presidential election.
Biden-elect also announced that he would take the first priority in coping with Corona 19.
[Joe Biden/U.S. President-elect: We will start with controlling COVID-19.
Without COVID-19 control, the economy cannot be restored, and the vitality of the United States cannot be restored.] The
situation is getting worse in Europe as well.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 12 million with more than 200,000 infections per day across Europe.
In the case of France, movement restrictions have been imposed on the whole area since the 30th of last month, but it has not been effective.
[Citizens of Paris, France: I am worried that a stronger blockade will come soon.
Because people don't take the situation more seriously than before.]
I'm more worried about the coming winter.
The spread can be accelerated as people do more indoor activities to avoid the cold and various gatherings increase during the coming Christmas and New Year holidays.
There are also concerns that the global economy could enter a more severe recession next year as quarantine regulations are tightened further next year if the virus spreads out this winter.
(Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)