전 세계 코로나19 확진자 2000만명 넘어…<br /><br />The number of COVID-19 cases around the world has topped 20 million.<br />The U.S. is the hardest hit country, but the state of New York is showing signs of recovery.<br />Jang Tae-hyun reports.<br />The number of COVID-19 cases around the world has reached another milestone.<br />According to the Worldometer, globally recorded coronavirus infections hit 20 million as of Monday, Korean time, with the death toll reaching over 733-thousand.<br />It took around six months since COVID-19 was first reported for the total number of cases to reach 10 million, and only another 43 days for it to reach to 20 million.<br />The U.S. has the highest number of COVID-19 cases with more than five million reported cases, followed by Brazil and India.<br />But New York once the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. is seeing some progress, with its percentage of positive tests dropping below one percent last Friday.<br />As of Monday, Brazil surpassed over three million COVID-19 cases and hundred-thousand deaths.<br />Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has been criticized for his response to the virus, calling it a "little flu" and refusing to wear a mask in public.<br />Meanwhile in India, the total number of COVID-19 cases surpassed two-point-two million.<br />"If all government agencies dealt with COVID-19 well from the beginning, our country would have been better off,... but they couldn't control the spread."<br />India went into lockdown in March, but had to reopen two months later due to the economic impact of the lockdown.<br />Jang Tae-hyun, Arirang News.<br />
