The United States is the country with the highest incidence, with 57.7 million.
The number of COVID-19 infections registered worldwide today reached 300 million, a number that scientists believe could be much higher, due to the number of cases that are not reported.
According to the independent count carried out by Johns Hopkins University, with data collected from different official sources, the number of known infections of covid-19, a virus that became known just over two years ago, reached 300,338,680 this Friday. .
The updated data on deaths worldwide from Johns Hopkins are 5,472,939, with the United States leading (833,988), followed by 619,654 deaths from Brazil, 483,178 from India, 307,488 from Russia and 299,970 from Mexico .
Regarding cases, the United States is the country with the highest incidence, with 57.7 million, followed by India with 31.1 million, Brazil with 22.3, the United Kingdom with 13.9, France with 11 and Russia with 10 ,4 millions.
The first 100 million infections worldwide were reached at the end of January 2021, just over a year after the disease became known, but that figure doubled in seven months, reaching 200 million at the beginning of last August.
The five months since then to reach 300 million cases give an idea of the progression of the disease, despite the vaccination campaigns launched during the past year in most of the world, whose success and scope has been very unequal in both rich countries and the developing world.
However, the rate of cases has accelerated in many countries in the last month due to the appearance of the omicron variant, which is much more contagious, although less lethal, than previous covid-19 mutations.
Regarding the higher incidence of deaths in relation to the number of cases, the data of the scientists mention Yemen (19.6%), Peru (8.8%), Mexico (7.4%), as the hardest hit countries. Sudan (7.1%) and Ecuador (6.1%).
Data from Johns Hopkins University put the doses of vaccines already administered worldwide at 9,345 million, with the United Arab Emirates topping the list with 93.43% of its population fully vaccinated, followed by countries such as Portugal, Chile, China, Cuba, Singapore, Cambodia, Spain and Malaysia with 80% or more of people vaccinated.
Most of the group of the least vaccinated, below 10% of the population, in addition to countries such as Afghanistan or Syria, is made up mostly of poor African nations, such as Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Gabon, Ghana, the Central African Republic, Zambia, Senegal, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Niger, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Sudan, Cameroon or Tanzania.
The report of the incidence of covid-19 infections, although imperfect, has been followed by national authorities to adopt containment and response measures to the virus, as well as by the population when planning trips to other places. (I)
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