An-Najah News - Nablus - The number of people infected with the Corona virus in the world today, Wednesday, is 3 million and 117 thousand, while the total deaths increased to 217,168, according to data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

On Tuesday, 75.1 thousand new infections were recorded, so the rate of infections is increasing again, compared to 69.4 thousand the previous day.

 The daily death toll also increased from 5159, according to yesterday’s statistic, to 6009 today.

A total of more than 928 thousand people recovered, an increase of 32 thousand compared to 28 thousand yesterday.

The United States remains at the forefront of the countries most affected by the pandemic, after it has exceeded one million infections and 58,000 deaths.

UK rose with more than 162 thousand infections to fifth place, surpassing Germany, which recorded about 160 thousand infections as of last night.

This remains Russia in eighth place in terms of the number of infections, with more than 99 thousand cases, in addition to 972 deaths.