Johannesburg (AP Photo / Shiraaz Mohame)
Coronavirus around the world.
The infected exceed 80 million.
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December 28, 2020 There are almost 432 thousand new coronavirus cases registered in the last 24 hours in the
world
and 7,200 people who have lost their lives due to complications.
This was announced by Johns Hopkins University in its latest report, while the total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic is about to reach 81 million.
The number of cases of Covid-19 infection
cured
has exceeded
45 million
in the world
, according to data from the American University Johns Hopkins.
The
positivity
to the new coronavirus officially registered has so far been a total of over
80 million
, of which almost 20 million in the United States.
The
United States
has registered 150,092 new cases of Covid-19, exceeding 19 million infections since the start of the pandemic.
According to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University, the country currently has 19,134,976 cases, of which over 2.1 million in California, 1.6 million in Texas and 1.2 million in Florida.
In the past 24 hours, another 1,209 people have died, for a total of 333,125 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The number of Covid-19 infections recorded in
South Africa
since the beginning of the pandemic
has passed the one million mark
, according to the Johns Hopkins University count which reports 1,004,431 cases.
Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called an emergency meeting of the government body in charge of dealing with the coronavirus emergency.
According to experts, the new variant of the virus, 501.V2, detected in South Africa is more contagious than previously known and has become dominant in many areas.
With South African hospitals reaching their maximum capacity, Ramaphosa is expected to announce a return to restrictive measures to contain the infections.