Today, the global COVID-19 total passed 23 million cases, as India, at more than 3 million cases, reported the biggest surge, and Hong Kong researchers detailed new evidence of reinfection in a patient.Today, the pandemic total is at 23,519,827, according to the Johns Hopkins online dashboard.
The pandemic death toll has now topped 800,000 and is at 810,051.Man's infections were 142 days apartIn a press release today, a team from Hong Kong University's microbiology department described the first evidence of reinfection based on genetic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, which showed that the virus strain in the patient's first infection is different than the one that triggered the second infection 142 days later.