Global COVID-19 cases passed 5 million Thursday after the World Health Organization announced the largest single-day increase in infections.
May 21 (UPI) — Global COVID-19 cases passed 5 million Thursday after the World Health Organization announced the largest single-day increase in infections.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, said Wednesday health officials reported 106,000 cases of COVID-16 over the previous 24 hours, two-thirds of which came from the United States, Russia, Brazil and India.
A live tracker of the virus by Johns Hopkins University tallied 5,000,561 infections of the deadly and contagious coronavirus early Thursday — roughly six months after the coronavirus emerged early December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan before spreading the world over.
