Coronavirus infection increased by 1 million in just 13 days.

Paul Fuggles, International Correspondent. 2020-04-15 15:00:07

At a time when the world is threatened by a Coronavirus epidemic, countries around the world have been taking steps to prevent the spread of this epidemic only for these numbers continue to increase day by day.

The number of people diagnosed with coronavirus worldwide in the last 13 days has risen from one million to two million today, according to figures provided by the Johns Hopkins Research Institute.

Of those infected, more than 126,000 have dies and more than 484,000 have been infected. The United States continues to be the most infected country in the world.

It is estimated that there are 614,246 people who have already been diagnosed with the virus in the USA - about one-third of all infected people in the world - and 26,064 have died there from the disease.

China, where the disease was first diagnosed at the end of December last year, is now the seventh country to be hit by the epidemic.

European countries such as Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom have all passed China for those affected by the epidemic.

The state of the epidemic in the East African region until Tuesday night; DR Congo - 241 Kenya - 216 Rwanda - 134 Uganda - 54 Tanzania - 53 Burundi - 5 South Sudan - 4 This figure is likely to increase due to the high number of people being tested for the epidemic and these countries have not yet taken precautionary measures. "It's just that the number of recipients continues to increase, and that doesn't mean you won't get infected again because the disease hasn't been eliminated yet."