Global infections top 5 million on Wed.,142 days after first case was reported

발병 142일만에 전 세계 코로나19 누적 확진자 500만명 넘어We begin with that grim milestone regarding coronavirus around the world.The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has now topped five million.According to Reuters,... worldwide cases had reached one million on April 1st, and have increased by around one million roughly every two weeks since then.The count surpassed 5 million on Wednesday,... 142 days after the first case was reported on December 31st last year.The death toll is edging closer to 330-thousand,... with more than half in Europe.In the past week, Latin America overtook the U.S. and Europe to report about one third of all new daily cases worldwide, mainly due to the soaring number of cases in Brazil.The U.S. and Europe accounted for about one fifth of new daily cases each in the past week.