Worldwide COVID-19 cases reach 8.3 million
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The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has reached eight-point-three million.
The virus is spreading quickly in the Middle East as well as in Brazil, which now has the world's second highest number of confirmed cases and deaths.
Eum Ji-young reports.
The total number of coronavirus cases reported around the world has surpassed eight-point-three million. And according to Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday local time, the outbreak has killed at least 448-thousand people around the world.
Coronavirus cases and deaths across Brazil are rising fast. The country now has more than 950-thousand total cases, the world's second highest behind the United States.
Brazil reported on Tuesday local time a record 34,918 new cases during a 24-hour period.
Brazilian health officials also reported 1,282 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday bringing the death toll in the country to at least 45,241.
"Brazil has 23% of all cases and 21% of all deaths in our region and we are not seeing transmission slowing down. That is the case in almost all countries in Latin America and a few in the Caribbean are rising."
The pandemic is also spreading rapidly in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday saw 4,919 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total to over 141-thousand, with more than 1-thousand deaths.
Also, the number of confirmed cases in the two worst-hit countries in the region, Iran and Turkey, is not slowing down.
Meanwhile, hundreds of flights in and out of Beijing were canceled and a so-called "soft lockdown" was placed on the Chinese capital as authorities tried to curb the sudden outbreak.
Chinese health officials reported 28 new COVID-19 cases in mainland China on Wednesday, with 21 of them coming from Beijing.
Eum Ji-young, Arirang News.
The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has reached eight-point-three million.
The virus is spreading quickly in the Middle East as well as in Brazil, which now has the world's second highest number of confirmed cases and deaths.
Eum Ji-young reports.
The total number of coronavirus cases reported around the world has surpassed eight-point-three million. And according to Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday local time, the outbreak has killed at least 448-thousand people around the world.
Coronavirus cases and deaths across Brazil are rising fast. The country now has more than 950-thousand total cases, the world's second highest behind the United States.
Brazil reported on Tuesday local time a record 34,918 new cases during a 24-hour period.
Brazilian health officials also reported 1,282 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday bringing the death toll in the country to at least 45,241.
"Brazil has 23% of all cases and 21% of all deaths in our region and we are not seeing transmission slowing down. That is the case in almost all countries in Latin America and a few in the Caribbean are rising."
The pandemic is also spreading rapidly in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday saw 4,919 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total to over 141-thousand, with more than 1-thousand deaths.
Also, the number of confirmed cases in the two worst-hit countries in the region, Iran and Turkey, is not slowing down.
Meanwhile, hundreds of flights in and out of Beijing were canceled and a so-called "soft lockdown" was placed on the Chinese capital as authorities tried to curb the sudden outbreak.
Chinese health officials reported 28 new COVID-19 cases in mainland China on Wednesday, with 21 of them coming from Beijing.
Eum Ji-young, Arirang News.