coronavirus cases to reach 12 million Wednesday — and it only took five days.That’s the quickest climb for a million new cases since the beginning of the worldwide pandemic, which has now entered its seventh month with no end in sight. ‘A hot mess’: U.S.
sees testing delays as coronavirus cases surge While earlier this year it would take over a week for cases to climb by a million, that pace has been accelerating recently.
The World Health Organization has reported record daily case counts worldwide multiple times through June and into this month.According to public health data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 12,007,327 infections were confirmed as of Wednesday evening.