The number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 25 million

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of infected people since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the world has exceeded 25 million people.

The passage of the next “round” value was provided by India: over the past day, almost 80,000 new cases have been registered in the country.

The mark of 10 million infected was passed two months ago, at the very end of June. Doubling the number of infected from 12.5 million took 50 days.

The top 3 in terms of the number of infected are the United States (almost 6 million), Brazil (3.85 million) and India (3.55 million). These three countries account for more than half of all cases. Russia is in fourth place with 985,000 cases.

Two-thirds of the cases have recovered: according to university statistics, there are 8.6 million active cases in the world.

843 thousand people have died since the beginning of the pandemic.