The number of confirmed cases of contamination of coronavirus in the world exceeded 161.51 million, an increase of more than 677 thousand per day. According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO) published on Saturday, the number of lethal exodes has increased by more than 12.9 thousand, Examing 3.35 million, passes the TASS.
As of 17:02 (GMT + 4) May 15 in WHO received information about 161,513,458 infected and 3,352,109 dead. The number of infected increased per day at 677,387, deaths – by 12 936.
WHO Statistics take into account only officially confirmed information about infected and dead, provided by states.
More than half cases of infection Over the past 24 hours accounted for the region of Southeast Asia (345 180), in which WHO also includes India, in second place – North and South America (203 174), on the third – Europe (81 624 ).