According to the data released by Johns Hopkins University at 9:20 Beijing time on the 18th, there were 562355005 confirmed cases of covid-19 and 6369380 deaths in the world.
The data also showed that there were more than 2million confirmed cases in four countries in the world in the past 28 days, followed by the United States, France, Germany and Italy, of which the United States added more than 3.2 million confirmed cases in the past 28 days; The number of confirmed cases in the past 28 days in another two countries exceeded 1million, namely Brazil and Japan.
America: about 85% of Americans live in high-risk areas of the epidemic
According to data released by Johns Hopkins University at 9:20 Beijing time on the 18th, a total of 89542107 cases were confirmed in the United States, with a total of 1023799 deaths.
A total of 2421 counties in the United States are currently classified as high-risk areas by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, and about 85% of Americans live in these areas, ABC reported on the 17th. At the same time, the average number of new confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 124000, the highest since mid February this year.
According to the report, Ashish JHA, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response working group, said on the 17th that the government urged all Americans, especially the elderly, to vaccinate covid-19 in time, because the "most immune evasive" variant is spreading in most parts of the country. He also said that even if there are no relevant regulations, people should wear masks when they may be at risk of infection. The CDC previously said that the Omicron subtype ba 5 has dominated the epidemic in the United States, and the infection cases of this strain account for at least 65% of the new cases in the United States.