COVID-19 pandemic claims 5.1 million lives

(VOVWORLD) - 257 million of COVD-19 cases had been confirmed worldwide as of Saturday noon, 5.1 million of them had died, according to worldometers.info.

A COVID-19 patient in Surabaya hospital, East Java, Indonesia (Photo: AFP/VNA)

 

The US leads the world in the number of infections (48.5 million) and deaths (791,000), followed by India and Brazil.