Coronavirus Cases Top 30 Million Worldwide: AFP Tally

According to an AFP tally based on official sources, the number of coronavirus cases registered worldwide reached 30 million on Thursday.

The grim milestone came as a warning from the World Health Organization about Covid-19's "alarming transmission rates" across Europe. 

The tallies, using data from national authorities obtained by AFP and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), are likely to only represent a fraction of the actual number of infections.

Only symptomatic or the most extreme cases are tested by several countries.

The coronavirus death toll is now at 943,086 since it surfaced in China

late last year and the number of cases has ballooned to 30,000,062, according to figures available at 19:45 GMT.

With 6,650,570 cases and 197,364 deaths, the United States has the highest national figures followed by India with 5,118,253 infections and 83,198 deaths and Brazil with 4,419,083 cases and 134,106 deaths.

Since mid-July, the rhythm of the pandemic seems to have stabilized globally, with a million new cases surfacing every four days.

It took 94 days to reach one million infections, and then another 86 days to surpass 10 million on June 28 for the number of cases.

Since then the number of infections has tripled.

With 742,286 infections, Asia has reported the most new cases in the past week, of which more than 80 percent are in India.

Latin America and the Caribbean are next at 493,120, followed by Europe (327.524), Canada and the US (273,339), the Middle East (111,986), Africa (52,584) and Oceania (548).

Latin America has 8,484,443 infections in all and 316,827 deaths, followed by Asia (6,861,965 cases and 120,334 deaths).

Canada and the US have almost 6,8 million cases and 206,602 deaths, Europe has 4,700,387 infections and 223,849 deaths and 1,750,232 cases and 41,254 deaths in the Middle East.

Africa has reported 1,381,036 cases and 33,324 deaths, with 30,890 infections and 896 deaths followed by Oceania.

In the past week India reported the highest number of new infections at 650,231, followed by Canada and the United States at 267,995, Brazil (221,194), Argentina (76,719) and Spain (70,981).

In the UK, the number of new cases increased 39 percent last week, in Canada 22 percent, in France 19 percent, in Brazil 11 percent, in the US 9 percent, and in India 8 percent.