WHO reports record number of coronavirus infections per day

Over the past day, a record 3.77 million people have been infected with CORONAVIRUS in the world, according to statistics published by the World HEALTH Organization (WHO).

The previous record for the number of infections was set on January 12. At that time, more than 3.5 million people were infected with the coronavirus worldwide.

During the day, 3,777,104 people became infected with the infection, another 8,741 patients with this diagnosis died. As of 18:42 Moscow time on January 20, since the beginning of the pandemic, 336,790,193 people have become ill with coronavirus, of which 5,560,718 have died.

The United States occupies the first place in terms of the number of infections  - almost 1.2 million new cases of coronavirus were detected there per day. In second place is France (432 thousand cases). Most cases of infection were detected in the countries of North and South America (1.6 million) and Europe (1.5 million cases). The least coronavirus spreads in Africa - about 14 thousand cases of infection were detected there.