The number of confirmed cases of infection with a new coronavirus in the world exceeded 129.21 million, an increase in 24 hours by more than 659 thousand, which is the highest rate of daily increase in incidence from January 17.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) published on Friday, the number of deaths has increased by more than 11.6 thousand, exceeding 2.82 million
As of 20:29 (in Baku) on April 2, 2,129 179 of those infected and 2,820,098 dead were received in WHO. The number of infected increased by 659,917, dead – by 11,626.
WHO statistics take into account only officially confirmed information on cases of infection and death provided by states.
More than 41% of infection cases reported in WHO over the past day, falls on Europe (275,728), in second place – North and South America (220 277), on the third – Southeast Asia (94 908 ).
Most of the confirmed infection cases are registered in USA – 30 159 557. Next, Brazil follows (12 748 747), India (12 303 131), France (4,620 357), Russia (4,563,56), United Kingdom (4,533,56) 270), Italy (3 607 083), Turkey (3 357 988), Spain (3 274 150), Germany (2 855 061), Colombia (2 406 377) and Poland (2 387 511).