New Delhi (NVI): More than 4.34 million people around the world have been infected with the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University tally. More than 2,97,000 people have died due to the contagion.
Every African country is now affected by the outbreak, after Lesotho announced its first case. The virus was detected in one of 81 people tested after arriving last week from Saudi Arabia and neighbouring South Africa, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, Brazil has confirmed a record number of 11,385 new cases of the novel coronavirus, with at least 749 new deaths, according to data from the country’s health ministry, taking the total number of infections to at least 1,88,974 and more than 13,000 deaths to become the sixth hardest-hit country in the world.
In the US, more than 83,000 people have now from coronavirus. Nearly 1.4 million people have been infected with the virus so far in the country.
Japan is expected to lift the state of emergency across a large part of the country from today, but the capital Tokyo will remain under restrictions until there is a convincing containment of the coronavirus.
In addition to this, the United Nations is forecasting that the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2 percent this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushing an estimated 34.3 million people into extreme poverty mostly in Africa.
However, about 1.6 million people have also recovered or have been completely cured of the deadly virus globally.
