More than 81.84 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,788,443 have died, according to a Reuters tally. The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged as a new strain in the large family of coronaviruses (CoV) which was previously not identified in humans. The United States has remained the worst-hit nation in terms of the number of Covid-19 cases and related deaths. India is a distant second with over 10 million cases, followed by Brazil, Russia, and France. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, nearly 79 million Covid-19 cases and more than 1.7 million related deaths have been recorded across the globe so far.

Source: dna December 30, 2020 16:59 UTC