Coronavirus: 3 Million Infected across the World

By Staff, Agencies

At least three million people have been infected with coronavirus across the world, according to the Worldometre tracker.

The historic point was reached on Monday morning – roughly five months after the virus first emerged.

Worldometre, the tracking service, uses the latest data from health ministries around the world in real-time.

The new total comes after Russia reported 6,198 more confirmed cases, taking the number of infections in the country to 87,147.

The Russian coronavirus crisis response center said that 50 more deaths of coronavirus patients were confirmed in the last 24 hours.

In the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, Russia surpassed mainland China - where the virus originated towards the end of last year – which reported the total of 82,830 cases on Monday.

The United States has seen the largest number of infections to date, which stood at more than 987,000 on Monday, according to Worldometre.

European countries have also been badly-hit by the virus, with Spain, Italy, France and Germany having the next highest number of cases in the world after the US.

The UK was sixth in the world for total number of Covid-19 infections as of Monday morning, with around 152,800 people having tested positive for Covid-19 to date.

Countries around the world have gone into lockdown in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus, which gives carriers flu-like symptoms and can develop into pneumonia.