The total number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic in the world has exceeded five million. This is reported on website American Johns Hopkins University.
According to the university, more than 246 million people in the world are currently infected with the COVID-19 virus. According to information on the morning of November 1, the number of deaths as a result of the disease reached 5,000,425.
The United States remains in first place in terms of the number of cases and deaths from complications of infection. More than 745 thousand citizens have died from the consequences of the coronavirus in the country. The second position in the anti-ranking of Hopkins University is occupied by the United Kingdom, where the number of victims of the COVID-19 pandemic reached 141 thousand, and the virus was detected in nine million inhabitants.
Earlier it became known that the US intelligence community rejected the version that the coronavirus was created as a biological weapon. At the same time, American intelligence analysts called both leading versions about the origin of the virus plausible: in the natural environment or in laboratory conditions.
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