100 Million COVID-19 Cases In The World, The United States Is The Worst

Illustration of the COVID-19 test. (Jakayla Toney / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - For almost a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of cases of infection globally according to Reuters has surpassed 100 million people on Wednesday, January 27. To be precise, it reached 100,348,783 cases on Wednesday, January 27, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

This means that nearly 1.3 percent of the world's population has now been infected with COVID-19 and more than 2.1 million people have died in various parts of the world due to COVID-19.

Since the start of the year, an average of one person has been infected every 7.7 seconds. During the same period, there were approximately 668,250 cases reported daily during the same period with the global death rate reaching 2.15 percent.

A number of countries are said to be badly affected by COVID-19, such as the United States, India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom, where they have more than half of the cases of COVID-19 reported. And, they also represent 28 percent of the world's population.

Noted, the world takes up to 11 months to record the first 50 million cases of infection. Meanwhile, to reach the 100 million mark, it only takes three months, as reported by Reuters.

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As a precaution, 56 countries have started their COVID-19 vaccination program, with a total of 64 million doses being given. Israel is at the forefront of vaccination per capita, inoculating 29 percent of the population for at least one dose.

The spread of COVID-19

The United States (US) with a record of 25,443,876 million cases makes it have 25 percent of all reported cases of COVID-19, even though it only accounts for 4 percent of the world's population.

Uncle Sam's country is also the country with the highest death toll in the world, where of the five deaths reported worldwide, one of them occurred in the US. The death rate in the US reached 425,227 cases and the highest in the world, twice that of Brazil in second place with 218,878 cases.

The US also leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported, accounting for one in five deaths reported worldwide each day. With just under 425,000 deaths, the United States has reported nearly twice as many deaths as Brazil, which has the second highest death toll in the world.

Vaccine illustration. (Sam Moqadam / Unsplash)

As the worst-affected region in the world, Europe reports one million cases of infection every four days and has reported nearly 30 million cases since the pandemic began. The Eastern European region contributes nearly 10 percent of global cases.

In Asia, India is the country with the second highest number of cases in the world with 10,689,527 cases of COVID-19, with an average of 13,700 new daily infections.

Meanwhile in Africa, there were 3.5 million cases of infection with 85,000 deaths from COVID-19. Countries on this continent still have difficulty getting the maximum supply of vaccines. In fact, there is a new variant from South Africa or 501Y.V2 which is said to be 50 percent more infectious and has spread in 20 countries in the world.

Unlike other regions in the world, Australia and New Zealand are better at controlling the pandemic, through border closures, lockdowns, hotel quarantines, sample testing to social implementation.

"We are controlling the virus here in Australia. But we want to launch the vaccine," Australian Finance Minister Josh Frydenberg said at a news conference on Sunday.