"Over 100 million infected people worldwide"... Nearly 26 million in the US

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was estimated that the cumulative number of corona 19 confirmed cases around the world exceeded 100 million.

We have hopes that the number of confirmed cases will decrease as we begin vaccination, but the mutant viruses that are constantly appearing here and there is another homework that needs to be addressed. 

This is Jeong Seong-jin.

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World O Meter, a statistics aggregation site, reported that the cumulative corona 19 confirmed cases around the world exceeded 100 million.

It has been almost a year and a month since the first confirmed cases were confirmed in Wuhan, China at the end of December 2019.

The United States recorded the largest number of confirmed cases, close to 26 million, followed by 1,670,000 in India, and 8.85 million in Brazil.

There were 3 million confirmed cases in Russia, England and France.

The cumulative number of deaths worldwide exceeded 2.14 million.

Vaccinations have started in the UK and the US since the end of last year, but the mutant virus alerts are getting louder.

With the mutant virus spreading to more than 80 countries, a case of mutant virus originating from Brazil was first confirmed in Italy.

Modena Pharmaceuticals said its vaccines were effective against mutant viruses originating in the UK and South Africa.

However, it turns out that the mutant virus from South Africa only produces a neutralizing antibody at the level of one-sixth of that of the general coronavirus, and the prevention effect is lowered.

[Pouch/Director of Infectious Disease Research Center, National Medical Center: If the more infectious mutant virus becomes dominant, we will face another challenge.]

Mr. Pouch, the primary and secondary vaccinations to increase the number of vaccinations Concerns were expressed that widening the interval between times could lead to more mutant viruses.