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Worldwide Covid-19 cases pass 150 million

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Worldwide Covid-19 cases have passed 150 million, according to an AFP tally, with numbers soaring recently due to a massive second wave in India.

150.3 million cases have been declared since the virus was first discovered in China in December 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data.

Worldwide, the number of new daily infections has more than doubled since mid-February. After the second wave from October to January, the figure had slowed to a little over 350,000 a day.

It is now 821,000 a day. In India, 2.5 million cases have been detected over the past seven days, an average of 357,000 a day - 30 times as many as in mid-February.

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