Chinanews, August 5th. According to the latest statistics of the new crown epidemic from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 6:21 on August 5, Beijing time, the total number of confirmed cases of new crown worldwide exceeded 200 million, reaching 200046509 cases. There were a total of 4,253,084 deaths.
Data show that the United States is the country with the largest cumulative number of confirmed cases and deaths, with a cumulative number of confirmed cases of 3,531,169 and a cumulative total of 614,784 deaths.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on the 3rd that the country's epidemic rebounded sharply.
In the past 7 days, the number of new confirmed cases per day across the United States exceeded the peak of last summer.
On May 12, local time, at the COVID-19 vaccination site at the Citi Field home of the New York Mets baseball team, people lined up for vaccination.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
Countries with more cumulative confirmed cases include India, Brazil, Russia, France and the United Kingdom.
Countries with more cumulative deaths include Brazil, India, Mexico, Peru and Russia.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide is accelerating. It took more than half a year from the beginning of the epidemic to 10 million cases, from 90 million cases to 100 million cases in only 16 days, and from 100 million cases to 200 million cases in 190 days.
According to Reuters statistics, since the outbreak, at least 2.6% of the world's population has been infected with the new crown virus. Due to limited testing in many places, the actual number of confirmed diagnoses may be higher.
Reuters analysis shows that if the total number of people infected with the new crown virus is the population of a country, it will be the eighth most populous country in the world, second only to Nigeria.
On July 21, 2021, local time, in Paris, France, tourists conduct a new crown test at the entrance of the Eiffel Tower.
At present, the more infectious Delta (Delta) variant strain is posing a threat to areas with low vaccination rates and putting pressure on the medical system.
On August 4, local time, the World Health Organization held a routine press conference for the new crown pneumonia, calling for the suspension of the new crown vaccine booster injection before the end of September to achieve the goal of at least 10% of the global population being vaccinated against the new crown vaccine.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai said that so far, more than 4 billion doses of vaccines have been vaccinated globally, 80% of which have gone to high-income and middle- and high-income countries.
Tan Desai said that we need to move most vaccines from high-income countries to low-income countries.
Tan Desai emphasized that vaccination is not a single way to control the epidemic, it needs to be combined with effective public health protection measures.