전 세계 코로나19 사망자 100만명 육박...미국 사망자 20만명<br /><br />Globally, we've lost nearly one million people to the coronavirus.<br />One-fifth of them were from the United States as the death toll in that country tops 200-thousand.<br />The task at hand now is to level out what's called the "percentage of peak figures" with countries like Brazil and India also reporting more Covid-19 fatalities.<br />Jang Tae-hyun sums up the coronavirus situation worldwide.<br />Following the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, in early December,... over nine-hundred-70-thousand people globally have died from COVID-19.<br />The virus has reached two-hundred-20 countries and territories, and one-hundred-98 of those have reported COVID-19 deaths.<br />The United States is the world's hardest-hit country, with a death toll that exceeds two-hundred-thousand as of Tuesday.<br />Since the first known death was reported in the U.S. on February 6th,... the country has seen an average of eight-hundred-58 coronavirus-related fatalities per day...<br />And makes up for over 20 percent of the world's COVID-19 death toll... which means that one out of five COVID-19 deaths is from the U.S.<br />"I think it's a horrible thing, but if we had not done it right, you could have two million, two and a half million, or three million."<br />Behind the U.S. is Brazil and India with over 130-thousand and 90-thousand coronavirus deaths respectively.<br />Countries around the world are now trying to level out what is called their 'percentage of peak figures'... a comparison of current daily infections compared to their highest.<br />For instance, if a country was reporting a thousand new COVID-19 infections a day, but is now only reporting five hundred on average, this is 50 percent of its peak.<br />But, despite efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, the rate of new daily infections is proving difficult to slow down.<br />Jang Tae-hyun, Arirang News.<br />
