Arab Weather - Corona virus cases worldwide exceeded 11 million on Friday, more than twice the number of acute influenza cases recorded annually, according to the World Health Organization.
Since the outbreak in December 2019, the disease has killed more than half a million people.
The United States registered more than 53,000 new cases of Covid-19 disease on Friday, with the states of Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee reporting daily records for new cases on Friday.
It is noteworthy that a quarter of all deaths in the world were recorded in the United States, which numbered approximately 129 thousand cases.
Corona infection rate in Latin American countries was 23% of the global total. Where Brazil tops the number of infections, with a total of one million and 53,9081 people in Brazil, which ranks second in the list of countries most affected by the Corona virus in the world.
India has become the new epicenter of the outbreak in Asia, where on Friday it recorded 20,903 new cases of coronavirus, in the country's largest leap in infections within 24 hours so far.
This brings the death toll of Covid-19 infections in the country to 625,544, and the death toll from the virus in India has risen to 18,213.
In Asia, injuries account for about 12% of all injuries worldwide, 9% of them in the Middle East, according to Reuters.
The number of deaths worldwide has exceeded 520 thousand due to illness so far, which is almost the same number of deaths due to influenza annually.
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