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Worldwide Covid cases pass 100 million with 2.15 million deaths

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January 27, 2021
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London, Jan. 27, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The number of confirmed covid cases across the globe has passed 100million, just over a year since the bug rapidly began to spread.

As US covid cases drop by 21%, California health officials announced they are ending the state’s latest stay-at-home order, citing increased ICU capacity. The new guidelines will allow certain businesses to reopen, including outdoor dining and gyms (ABC Video Twitter)

An average of around 650,000 infections have been reported every day over the past week, as countries fight to contain a number of more transmissible variants of the disease.

READ ALSO: WHO WORKING ON ACCELERATING THE ROLLOUT OF VACCINES IN AFRICA

In anticipation of global cases hitting today’s milestone, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted: ‘

This week, we expect to reach 100 million cases of #COVID19. Numbers can make us numb to what they represent: every death is someone’s parent, someone’s partner, someone’s child, someone’s friend.
This must strengthen our resolve to save lives – take care of ourselves & others

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 25, 2021

This must strengthen our resolve to save lives – take care of ourselves & others.’

The USA has more confirmed cases than any other country, with 25.4million positive tests, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s Covid-19 tracker

India follows with 10.7million cases, compared to 8.9million in Brazil, and around 3.7million in Russia and the UK.

Meanwhile global deaths now stand at around 2.15million, of which 423,010 were in the US – by far the worst hit nation.

In Brazil 217,664 people have lost their lives, compared to 153,587 in India, 150,273 in Mexico and 100,358 in the UK.

Britain became the first country in Europe to pass the 100,000 milestone today, with half of all officials deaths taking place since mid-November.

Describing how it was ‘hard to compute the sorrow’ contained in today’s death toll, Boris Johnson insisted that the Government has done ‘everything we could’ to prevent lost lives, despite a number of policy U-turns throughout the course of the pandemic.

More than 68millions shots of the coronavirus vaccine have now been given in 56 countries, averaging at 3.44million doses per day, according to Bloomberg.

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