The total number of people infected with coronavirus in the world by the morning of August 19 exceeded 22.1 million. The pandemic has affected 188 countries. This is evidenced by the data of the Johns Hopkins University project, published on the website.

According to the project, for all the time in the world, 22 136 954 people were infected..

The increase in the number of infected per day amounted to more than 209 thousand. Over the entire period of the pandemic, 780,908 cases have died, 14.1 million people have recovered.

The largest number of infections was detected in the United States (5.4 million), Brazil (3.4 million), India (2.7 million), Russia (930 thousand) and South Africa (592 thousand).

Most deaths were recorded in the United States (171 thousand), Brazil (109 thousand), Mexico (57 thousand), India (52 thousand) and the UK (41 thousand).