The total number of confirmed coronavirus infections has reached over 500 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late Thursday,writes news agency MIA.
Globally, as of Thursday evening, there have been 500.19 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 6.19 million deaths reported to WHO, the organisation said.
Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus at the end of 2019, most infections have been registered in Europe (209.5 million) and the Americas (151.7 million). Africa, on the other hand, accounted for only around 2% of the global number of cases.
However, the WHO suspects a huge number of unreported cases on this continent. According to the WHO, up to 97 times more people could have been infected here than the known figure.
