There are over 40 million cases of coronavirus in the world since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally.
Worldwide, 40,000,234 infections and 1,113,896 deaths have been recorded.
The most affected countries are the United States with 8,154,935 infections,
India
with 7,550,273 and
Brazil
5,235,344.
In Europe, 250,000 deaths from coronavirus have been exceeded
, according to a new budget provided by the AFP.
In particular, 250,030 deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in the continent (with 7,366,028 infections), of which more than two thirds in the
United Kingdom
(43,646), in
Italy
(36,543),
Spain
(33,775),
France
(33,392 ) and
Russia
(24,187).
Over the past seven days, more than 8,000 deaths
(8,342)
have been recorded
, the heaviest
toll
in a week since mid-May.
There are 15,982 new cases of Covid-19 ascertained in
Russia
in the last 24 hours: this is the highest number recorded in a single day since the beginning of the epidemic.
According to official data, 179 people died on the last day, bringing the total victims of the epidemic to 24,366.
The infections ascertained in Russia are 1,415,316 in all.
In
Ukraine
in the last 24 hours 4,766 new cases of Covid-19 and the death of 66 people have been recorded: the Kyiv Post reports, citing data from the Ministry of Health.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, 373,276 infections and 5,673 deaths have been recorded in the former Soviet republic.
In 24 hours there were 29,837 new cases of positivity to Covid-19 in
France
, a lower number than yesterday's 32,000 but anomalous in the order of magnitude of Sunday's data, normally lower due to the slow flow of data in Santé Publique France (last Sunday there were about 16,000 cases).
There have been 85 victims since yesterday, for a total of 33,477 since 1 March.
The presence of patients in the intensive care and resuscitation wards is increasing, today just under 2,000 units (1,939).
The coronavirus also continues to run in the
Balkans
, with
Romania
remaining the country in the region most affected by the epidemic.
In the last 24 hours, the new infections have been in Romania 3,920, with 60 other deaths, numbers that bring the totals to 180,388 and 5,872.
Of nearly 10,000 hospital patients, 749 are in intensive care.
The country has carried out more than 2.8 million tests, the highest number among the countries in the region.
The contagion curve in Croatia and Slovenia remains high, with respectively 819 cases and eight deaths, and 726 infections and three victims.
In Bulgaria there have been 603 coronavirus cases since yesterday, with 10 deaths, in Bosnia-Herzegovina 556 and three.
North Macedonia also records a strong epidemic recovery, with 428 cases and 10 deaths in 24 hours, while Serbia records a stable situation above 200 cases per day: in the last 24 hours there have been 214 infections, two victims .
In Kosovo there were 137 cases and one victim, in Montenegro there were 188 infections, five deaths.