Until this morning, WorldMeter.com data showed that more than 18 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus pandemic in the world.

According to the statistics of the site, the total number of cases reached 18 million and more than 23 thousand, while about 689 thousand of them died, while more than 11.3 million recovered.

The United States remains the most affected country with 4.7 million infected people, followed by Brazil (2.7 million), India (1.7 million), Russia (845 thousand) and South Africa (503 thousand).

The Ministry of Health in Johannesburg had indicated earlier that the number of confirmed cases exceeded half a million in South Africa, while the total infections in Africa are close to one million.

So far, just over three million people have been tested for the coronavirus in South Africa, the largest industrialized country in the continent, which confirmed its first case since five months. The number of deaths in the country was 8,153 cases.

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