Johns Hopkins, a US university announced that infections with Coronavirus passed the threshold of 200 million confirmed cases across the world so far.
Sources affiliated with the university revealed that the death toll of the deadly virus was 4.2 million cases.
According to official statistics, the USA tops the countries which are the worst-hit be COVID-19 with 36 million infections.
Other worst-hit states after the USA are: India with 31 million infections then comes Brazil with more than 20 million infections.
On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the infection with COVID-19 is still spiking in all continents of the world.
The UN organization indicated that four million people were infected with the virus throughout the last week.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director Manager of the WHO, said over a news conference, that the five administrative areas under the organization, witnessed a rise in infections by 80% over the last four weeks.
He added that infections in Africa rose due to the “Delta” variant which spreads out rapidly in parts of the planet as it was detected in 132 countries so far, pointing out that the rates of detecting the virus are very thin in low-income nations which is still under 2% of the population there compared to the developed countries.
Ghebreyesus said that 50% of the countries were able to vaccinate 10% of their population, meanwhile, 25% of these countries vaccinated some 40% of the population. However, three countries only across the globe vaccinated 70% of the population.
Ghebreyesus warned that the world is still away from attaining the target of vaccination of 10% of the world’s population by the end of September, 40% by the end of the current year, and 70% of the World’s population by mid of next year.
He unveiled that 70 % of the African countries couldn’t vaccinate 10% of their populations by next September.
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