The world has more than 13 million people with corona, half of them in the Americas

Arab Weather - The number of cases of the Coronavirus around the world has exceeded 13 million, in a new milestone for the spread of the disease, with the last million being registered in only five days from July 8 to July 13.

The World Health Organization stated that this number is three times the number of people with acute flu recorded annually.

The disease also caused the death of more than half a million people in seven months, as the number as of Tuesday July 14 (572,411) was Wafa, which is the same number of deaths globally recorded as acute influenza.

Latin American countries most affected by the epidemic

The spread of the virus is accelerating in Latin America more than others, and the Americas have recorded more than half of the world's infections and half of the deaths, according to Reuters.

Today, Latin America has become the second most affected region in the world with the Covid-19 epidemic in terms of deaths, with more than 145 thousand deaths officially registered, according to Agence France-Presse.