KABUL (Pajhwok): Worldwide Covid-19 cases have passed 150 million, according to an AFP tally.
Overall, 150.3m cases have been declared since the virus was first discovered in China in December 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data.
Worldwide, the number of new daily infections has more than doubled since mid-February.
After the second wave from October to January, the figure had slowed to a little over 350,000 a day. It is now 821,000 a day.
The explosion in infections has been blamed in part on a new virus variant, but also on failure to follow virus restrictions, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
The countries in the world with the highest total number of recorded cases are the United States (32.3m), India (18.8m) and Brazil (14.6m).
Taking into account population, the most-affected countries are Montenegro (15,457 cases per 100,000 residents), the Czech Republic (15,207 per 100,000) and Slovenia (11,513 per 100,000).
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