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COVID-19 Cases Top 319.8 Million

by Colleen Fleiss on Jan 14 2022 8:51 AM

Globally, the COVID-19 caseload has pinnacled 319.8 million, while the deaths have swelled to more than 5.52 million and vaccinations to over 9.55 billion.

COVID-19 Cases Top 319.8 Million
Globally, the COVID-19 caseload has pinnacled 319.8 million, while the deaths have swelled to more than 5.52 million and vaccinations to over 9.55 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 319,871,018 and 5,520,191, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 9,552,790,916.

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (36,317,927 infections and 485,035 deaths), followed by Brazil (22,822,177 infections and 620,830 deaths).

The other countries with over 5 million cases are the UK (15,064,590), France (13,348,154), Russia (10,541,870), Turkey (10,273,170), Italy (8,155,645), Spain (7,930,528), Germany (7,805,161), Argentina (6,793,119), Iran (6,214,781), and Colombia (5,440,981), the CSSE figures showed.

The nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are Russia (312,733), Mexico (300,574), Peru (203,157), the UK (151,833), Indonesia (144,155), Italy (140,188), Iran (132,002), Colombia (130,625), France (127,519), Argentina (117,808), Germany (115,172), and Ukraine (104,367).

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