Infections with Coronavirus in World Exceed 1.85 Million

US Johns Hopkins University revealed the total infections with the Coronavirus across the world exceeded 1,85 million cases.

The university released a statement said that the United States of America (USA) tops in the number of confirmed infections as the number is increasing to more than half a million ( 557571) cases.

The toll death of the virus hit 114,245 deaths up to Monday, March 13.

Spain came in the second place with 166, 831 cases,Italy placed third with 156,363 cases, France came in the fourth slot with 133,670, cases, Germany came in the fifth slot with 127,854 cases, UK ( Britain) with 85,208, China in the sixth place with 83,135 cases and Iran in the seventh place with 71,686 cases.

The USA, according to the university's statement, tops in the number of the deaths by the Coronavirus.

More than 22,105 US national were killed by that virus, Italy came second with 19,899 deaths, Spain placed in the third slot with 17,209 deaths, France in the fourth place with 14,393 deaths and the UK with 10,612.

On the other hand, The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publishes daily updates of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19. We rely on this data as explained above.

"In an ongoing outbreak the final outcomes death or recovery for all cases is not yet known. The time from symptom onset to death ranges from 2 to 8 weeks for COVID-19. This means that some people who are currently infected with COVID-19 will die at a later date. However, this needs to be kept in mind when comparing the current number of deaths with the current number of cases," said ECDC.

"To understand the risks and respond appropriately we would also want to know the mortality risk of COVID-19 the likelihood that someone who catches the disease will die from it."

The European Centre added: "We will look into this question in more detail further below in this article and explain that this requires us to know or estimate the number of total cases and the final number of deaths for a given infected population. Because these are not known, we discuss what the current data can and can not tell us about the risk of death."

In an outbreak of an infectious disease, it is important to not only study the number of deaths, but also the growth rate at which the number of deaths is increasing. This is because even if the current numbers of deaths are small when compared with other diseases, a fast growth rate can lead to very large numbers rapidly.