The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated January 16)

19:12, January 16, 2021

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  The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated January 16)

  Globally, as of 9:00 am BJT on Saturday, there have been 93,765,725 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 2,006,611 deaths, reported the World Health Organization.A medical worker wearing protective equipment is seen during a mass COVID-19 testing operation in Roubaix, northern France, Jan. 11, 2021. (Photo by Sebastien Courdji/Xinhua)Current status (data as of 9 am BJT, January 16):Sources: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies.Nearly 90,000 people in the United States may die from COVID-19 in the next three weeks, according to the latest projections of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).As of Friday afternoon, the country has recorded nearly 23.4 million cases with over 390,100 related deaths, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.Another 55,761 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 3,316,019, according to official figures released Friday.France on Friday saw the coronavirus-related death toll approach 70,000, while the daily increase in COVID-19 infections was 21,271, slightly up from 21,228 registered the day before.More than two million COVID-19 infections have already been officially registered in Germany since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday.Italy passed a positive milestone on Friday, with 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine having been administered just 19 days after the country launched its nationwide vaccination program.Brazils Health Ministry on Friday confirmed the countrys first case of reinfection with a new variant of the COVID-19, detected in the northern state of Amazonas.Turkey reported on Friday 8,314 new COVID-19 cases, including 921 symptomatic patients, as the total number of positive cases in the country reached 2,373,115, according to its health ministry.

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  The latest: COVID-19 outbreak worldwide (Updated January 19)

  Globally, as of 6:30 pm BJT on Tuesday, there have been 93,805,612 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 2,026,093 deaths, reported the World Health Organization.Tzvika Sermik, 92, right, and Virginia Wendel, 86, dance after they received their second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, at a private nursing home, in Netanya, Israel, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo: AP)Current status (data as of 6:30 pm BJT, January 19):Sources: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies.The outbreak has now claimed 405,072 lives in the US, the most of any country, with a total of 24,467,964 infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of 6:30 pm BJT on Tuesday.India has confirmed a total of 10,581,823 COVID-19 cases, raising the number of deaths to 152,556.Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Brazil have increased to 8,511,770 with 210,299 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported.Russia has confirmed 3,574,330 cases of COVID-19, with the number of deaths at 65,632.The UKs confirmed cases have increased to 3,443,350, with the number of deaths at 90,031, according to the JHU virus tracker.France has recorded 2,972,889 confirmed cases and 70,826 deaths.It is followed by Turkey with 24,161 deaths from 2,392,963 infections.A total of 2,390,102 people in Italy have tested positive for COVID-19, with the death toll at 82,554.The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 53,769 lives in Spain, bringing the total number of infections to 2,336,451.Germany has reported 2,060,559 COVID-19 cases and 47,833 deaths from the virus so far.