Coronavirus latest: global infections cross half-million mark

Coronavirus latest: global infections cross half-million mark

Updates on the respiratory illness that has infected hundreds of thousands of people and killed several thousand.

The number of COVID-19 coronavirus infections worldwide, as of yesterday. World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press briefing that it took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days after that to reach 200,000 and just another 4 days to top 300,000 infections. (Nature | Continuously updated)