COVID-19: Worldwide coronavirus cases pass 8 million
US and Europe account for more than half of cases, which have doubled since May 10
Paris: More than 8 million cases of novel coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide, with more than half in the United States and Europe, according to a tally from official sources at 2am UAE on Tuesday.
At least 8,000,202 infections including 435,176 deaths, mostly in Europe, have been registered since the pandemic first emerged in China late last year.
Europe has 2,417,902 cases with 188,085 deaths. The USA has 2,110,182 cases and 116,081 deaths.
The number of confirmed cases has doubled since May 10 and another one million new cases have been detected in the last eight days.
That likely represents only a fraction of the real number of infections because most countries are only testing the most serious cases or only have limited testing capacity.