US Johns Hopkins University: "COVID-19 Global Cases Surpass 300 Million"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] Johns Hopkins University in the United States announced on the 7th (local time) that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 300 million.

As of 3 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on that day (12 p.m. Korean time), the confirmed cases were counted at 320,002,1 and deaths at 5,471,856.

The country with the highest number of confirmed cases is the United States, with a cumulative total of 58,449,898 confirmed cases and 833,957 deaths.

This day marks the 739th day since COVID-19, which first emerged in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, was initially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, producing variants such as Delta and Omicron.

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