The number of victims of coronavirus in the world has exceeded 800 thousand. This is evidenced by data from the Worldometers portal.
According to information on the morning of August 22, 803,201 people died on the planet. The total number of infected reached 23,120,216, and another 15.71 million were cured.
However, according to project of Johns Hopkins University, the number of deaths from the coronavirus that causes people a little less than 800 thousand, and is 797 901.
The most affected country by SARS-CoV-2 is the United States (the number of infected exceeded 5.6 million). In the second place is Brazil (3.53 million people), India (2.9 million people) was in third place. Russia (944,6 thousand) secured the fourth position, ahead of South Africa (603,3 thousand). Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Spain are also ranked in the top ten.
An outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. On 11 March, who announced that the situation could be described as a pandemic.