Global coronavirus cases surpass 90 million amid battle against new variants

The grim milestone comes as nations around the globe scramble to procure vaccines and continue to extend or reinstate lockdowns to fight new coronavirus variants.

Health workers wait for the next patient at a coronavirus testing site in Wolverhampton, England.

Total number of cases as a result of COVID-19 surpassed 90 million. Source: Getty Images Europe

Worldwide coronavirus cases surpassed 90 million on Monday, according to both a Reuters tally and John Hopkins University, as nations around the globe scramble to procure vaccines and continue to extend or reinstate lockdowns to fight new coronavirus variants.

The new COVID-19 variants discovered initially in the United Kingdom and South Africa are rapidly spreading globally.

According to John Hopkins University, the number of global COVID-19 cases reached 90,298,391 on Monday. 


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Published 13 January 2021 7:02am
By SBS Nepali
Source: SBS


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