There have been more than 50 million positive coronavirus cases worldwide since the start of the epidemic.
According to a tracking program run by Johns Hopkins University, there were more than 50.3 million cases as of early Monday morning.
Roughly 10 million of these were in the United States, even though the country only has about 4% of the world’s population.
The United States has reported more than 126,000 positive cases and more than 1,000 deaths of infected people Covid-19 Saturday, according to the university.
It was the fourth consecutive day that the number of new cases exceeded 100,000.
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The Reuters news agency said that the second global wave of the virus in the past 30 days represents a quarter of the 50.3 million cases.
She also said that the data showed that October was the worst month for the epidemic so far.
About 8.5 million cases have been in India and the UK accounts for nearly 1.2 million.
More than 1.2 million people have died from the disease worldwide – 237,000 of them in the United States, 162,000 in Brazil and 126,000 in India.
And it had nearly 50,000 deaths in the UK, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracking.
The UK confirmed on Sunday 156 people have died within 28 days of testing for the CoronavirusCompared to Saturday’s figure of 413.
Government data also showed that the number of people reported to be infected with the COVID-19 virus has increased by 20,572.
This is a decrease compared to Saturday’s increase of 24,957.
