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cumulative number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has exceeded 200 million today (4th). About 2.5% of the world's population has been infected in about one year and seven months since Corona was first reported.



By Kim Young-ah, staff reporter.



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Following France and Italy, New York, the largest city in the United States, eventually pulled out a card to make vaccination compulsory.



[Bill de Blasio / Mayor of New York: To enter restaurants, health clubs, and entertainment facilities, workers as well as customers must be vaccinated. This is a 'mandatory' thing.] From



the 16th, it is forbidden to enter indoor facilities such as restaurants and gyms without a certificate of vaccination.



From next month, the measure will be expanded to all schools and workplaces in New York City.



In the United States, the number of infected people per day has soared to 100,000 again recently as the delta virus spread rapidly among unvaccinated people.



This is close to the level of the pandemic last February.



The number of people infected worldwide has crossed 200 million today.



It took about 13 months to reach 100 million, but it doubled again in about half a year after that.



China is also on the brink of a new coronavirus outbreak.



With 71 local infections and 15 asymptomatic infections, the city of Zhangjiajie, designated as the stronghold of the coronavirus, has instructed all residents and tourists not to leave the city.



In particular, there was a confirmed case in Wangjing, an area with a high concentration of Koreans in Beijing, and the Korean community is in crisis.



Some argue that to prevent the spread of the delta mutation, people who have been in close contact with the confirmed case should be traced up to four days before the onset.



[Zhong Nanshan/Chinese Institute of Technology: In the same workplace, in the same school, in the same building, if you lived with a patient 4 days before the onset, you should blockade or control it step by step.] In the



meantime, five Greek athletes were confirmed at the Tokyo Olympic Athletes' Village for the first time. Cluster infections have been reported.



(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)     



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