Coronavirus: over 2.2 million deaths worldwide, more than 200 thousand deaths in just 15 days

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January 30, 2021 The toll of deaths caused by the coronavirus globally has exceeded the threshold of 2.2 million: this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University.

According to the American university,

2,206,459 people

have died in the

date, against a total of 102,069,448 cases.   

The total death toll from Covid-19 had exceeded 2 million on January 15, when the total number of infections was over 93 million: in the last 15 days, therefore, over 200 thousand additional victims and over nine million new ones have been registered infections. 

The 

has added 16,374 new cases and 1,434 deaths Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, for a total of 1,841,893 confirmed infections and 156,579 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

This was reported yesterday by the Secretariat (ministry) of Health.

With these figures, the country ranks thirteenth in the world for number of infections and this week rose to third place in the world with the highest number of pandemic deaths, behind the United States and Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In

the National Health Commission reported today that the Asian country yesterday registered 52 new cases of coronavirus, 36 of which are due to local infection, most of them in the north-eastern regions.

has recorded the first death of a Covid-19 patient from May, as the island grapples with an anomalous outbreak of locally transmitted cases.

According to Reuters, the victim is an 80-year-old woman with a previous health problem.

She had been infected within a cluster linked to a hospital, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.