US tops world COVID-19 infections, deaths
(VOVWORLD) - 218.6 million COVID-19 infections and 4.5 million deaths had been reported globally as of Wednesday, according to worldometer.info. In the last 24 hours, 536,000 new infections and 8,000 more deaths were confirmed.
 A COVID-19 patient is transfered to a hospital in New York. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
The US tops the world in number of cases (40 million) and number of fatalities (658,000). The US is followed by India and Brazil.
A group of Japanese researchers said on Tuesday that a new mutation of the COVID-19 Delta variant has been seen for the first time in Japan. It’s similar to a strain of the Alpha variant.