‘코로나19’ 100일… 전세계 150만 확진•9만여명 사망<br /><br />The number of global infections continues to soar... now at one-point-five million... some 100 days since China officially reported the COVID-19 outbreak to the World Health Organization in late December.<br />The majority of the confirmed cases now come from the U.S. where officials cautiously suggested a slowdown in the number of infections, mainly due to social distancing measures.<br />Kim Ji-yeon reports.<br />The number of COVID-19 infections around the world has now surpassed one-and-a-half million.<br />Latest figures from Johns Hopkins University show the number of deaths worldwide has soared to some 88-thousand.<br />Italy has seen the highest number of deaths with some 17-thousand-700.<br />The U.S. topped the number of infections, surpassing 430-thousand.<br />The death toll there is at 14-thousand-600.<br />Despite some states reporting a steep climb in fatalities due to COVID-19... officials in the U.S. have been cautiously saying the outbreak is beginning to slow... citing a slowdown in hospitalizations as evidence that social distancing and other measures are working.<br />Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo suggested during his daily news briefing on Tuesday... that the state is flattening the curve... while also acknowledging that a recent surge in people dying at home suggests the state may be undercounting the loss of life.<br />The United Kingdom, which is cited as the next likely epicenter of the virus in Europe,... reported a daily record 938 hospital deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday... bringing the total to around seven-thousand-100.<br />British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still in intensive care with COVID-19,... but the UK government reported that his condition is improving.<br />"The latest from the hospital is that the prime minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving. I can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team."<br />Britain's lockdown, which has been imposed until April 16, is likely to be extended as officials say the outbreak there has not even reached its peak.<br />Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.<br />
