The number of coronavirus cases in the world exceeded 40 million

The number of cases of infection with COVID-19 today exceeded 40 million, the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, writes Bloomberg.

At the beginning of the pandemic, it took the world six months to reach the first 10 million infected, but subsequent milestones were reached more and more quickly, and the last 10 million were added in just 32 days. On Friday, global cases reached an all-time high of over 415,000.

The US, India and Brazil accounted for more than half of the cases. The total number of deaths in the world from COVID-19 exceeds 1.1 million people.

In the United States and India, on average, more than 50 thousand cases are recorded daily, records of daily growth are recorded in Europe and Russia (almost 16 thousand cases). Russia is in fourth place in the world in terms of the number of detected cases since the beginning of the pandemic - 1.4 million.

Johns Hopkins University, there are 12.5 million active cases of coronavirus in the world According to .

Today, another daily record was recorded in Russia - as of October 19, 15,982 cases. Most cases are in Moscow (+5376), St. Petersburg (+686) and the Moscow Region (+466). During the day, 179 deaths from coronavirus were recorded in Russia, a total of 24.3 thousand people died.