Experts Record One Million Cases of Coronavirus in World in 100 Hours

A new statistic prepared by news agencies, across the world, showed that for the first time the number of Coronavirus infections in the world rose by one million cases within 100 hours.

The total infections exceeded the threshold of 14 million yesterday, Friday.

The United States, which has more than 3.6 million confirmed infections, continues to experience massive daily jumps in its first wave of COVID-19 infection.

This country registered a world record for daily infections exceeding 77,000 new infections on Thursday, while Sweden recorded 77,281 overall cases since the start of the pandemic.

Other countries severely affected by the virus have slowed its spread and started easing public isolation measures, while other regions such as Barcelona in Spain and Melbourne in Australia have begun to implement a second round of local public closure.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the number of infection cases worldwide with the Coronavirus is almost three times the number of cases registered annually with acute influenza.

The pandemic has so far claimed the lives of more than 590,000 people in nearly seven months, heading towards the upper limit of globally recorded annual deaths from influenza.

Statistics that rely on government reports show that the disease has accelerated further in the Americas, which account for more than half of the cases and half of deaths worldwide.

The tests showed that more than two million people were infected in Brazil, including President Jair Bolsonaro, in addition to more than 76,000 deaths.

India, the only other country with more than a million cases, has seen an average of 30,000 new cases per day during the past week.

And in a new record, the number of cases of the Coronavirus in the world during Thursday reached 249.8 thousand, thus exceeding the total cases 13 million and 800 thousand, according to the counter of "Johns Hopkins University" of America.

University data showed that the death toll from Coronavirus in the world exceeded 590,000 cases, while 7 million and more than 718,000 people were recovering.

The number of infections in the United States reached 3 million and 576 thousand cases, while Brazil exceeded the threshold of two million cases registered 2012.1 thousand cases, and India exceeded one million with 1003.8 thousand cases.

Among the Arab countries, Saudi Arabia remains at the forefront of those affected by the pandemic, with 243.2 thousand injuries, followed by Qatar (105.4 thousand), while Iraq bypassed with 86.1 thousand cases, Egypt, whose outcome reached 85.7 thousand.

Fifth in the Arab world is the Sultanate of Oman (62.5 thousand cases), followed by Kuwait (57.6 thousand) and the Emirates (56.1 thousand).)