Coronavirus: World Cases Exceeds 20 Million

The global COVID-19 infections has surpassed 20 million.

There have been over 736,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Worst affected is the US, which has recorded more than a quarter of all cases - five million - and the most deaths. Brazil has recorded three million cases; India 2.2 million; Russia almost 900,000 and South Africa 560,000.

It took 38 days for global cases to go from five to 10 million between May and June but only 24 days to then reach 15 million by 22 July.

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According to the Africa Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the continent has so far recorded 1,055,964 cases with 23,528 deaths’

The worst affected in the region is South Africa, which has recorded over 563,000 cases with more than 10,600 deaths.

Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March.