Over 8 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide
A lot more than 8 million conditions of novel coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide, with an increase of than half in the usa and Europe, according to an AFP tally from official options at 2200 GMT about Monday.
At least 8,000,202 infections including 435,176 deaths, usually in Europe, have been registered because the pandemic first emerged in China later last year.
Europe has 2,417,902 cases with 188,085 deaths. The USA has 2,110,182 cases and 116,081 deaths.
The number of confirmed cases has doubled since Might 10 and a different one million new cases have already been detected within the last eight days.
That likely represents only a fraction of the true number of infections because virtually all countries are just testing the most serious cases or only have limited testing capacity.-AFP
