Coronavirus: over 19 million cases worldwide

 Worldwide coronavirus cases have passed the 19 million mark. This is what a count of the AFP news agency indicates.

India - The number of victims has exceeded the 40,000 threshold : this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University. According to data from the American university, the country currently records 40,699 deaths against 1,964,536 infections. The toll on coronavirus cases has exceeded the two million mark. The Ministry of Health of the country has announced it.

United States - The death toll from coronaviurs has exceeded 160,000: according to Johns Hopkins University. The data of the American university indicate that the deaths in the country are to date 160,090 compared to 4,881,974 confirmed cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States, 1,598,624 people have healed.

Mexico - The death toll has exceeded 50 thousand. The data of the American university indicate that there are 50,517 deaths in the country compared to 462,690 confirmed cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 361,764 people have healed in Mexico.

Coronavirus contagion cases officially registered in Africa have exceeded one million, according to an AFP count . South Africa is the country most affected by the pandemic on the continent, with 538,184 official cases, 8307 of which added today, and 9604 deaths (a daily increase of 306 deaths). Egypt records about 95,000 cases and Nigeria about 45,000.

For the second consecutive day, infections in Germany are still rising, reaching 1,147 new infections in one day (they were 1,045 yesterday) and bringing the spread of the epidemic back three months, in early May. The Robert Koch Institut reports it. As of May, the trend of new infections had fallen, and then started to rise again in late July. The peak was 6,000 new infections in 24 hours in April. The virus has so far affected 214,214 people and caused 9,183 deaths.