Leading in the number of cases: USA, India and Brazil • October was the worst month since the outbreak • Europe and America fear a huge wave of mortality
The number of people infected with the corona virus in the world today (Sunday) crossed the 50 million mark, about half of them in three countries: the United States, India and Brazil. In the world.
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October was the worst since the outbreak, during which the United States became the first country with at least 100,000 people infected per day. The current weekly average of the global infection rate stands at 540,000 people every day.
The increasing level of infection is reflected in the fact that the increase in the death toll from 30 to 40 million took 32 days.
On the other hand, only 21 days passed between the declaration of 40 million dead in the world and 50 million.
Europe with 12 million infected is the region with the highest level of infection and with a quarter of the victims.
According to the Reuters news agency, an increase in one million infections occurs in the whole of Europe about once every three days.
This is about 51 percent of all morbidity cases in the world.
The weekly average in France stands at 54,440 verified, a figure higher than that recorded in India, whose population is 1.3 billion compared to about 67 million inhabitants in France.