The statistics of May 8 were published on the website of the World Health Organization.
Over the past 24 hours, 87 729 new cases of Coronavirus infection have been detected in the world and 5 429 people have died over the same period.
In the last 24 hours, 2 247 people have infected and 47 have died in Africa, 43 300 new cases were discovered and 3 126 have died in the US region, 8 125 new infected were detected in the Mediterranean Region, 143 have died, 28 308 new infections have been reported in the European region, 1 941 have died, 4 486 have been infected in Southeast Asia and 139 have died, 1 263 people have been infected in the Western Pacific, 33 have died.
For information, Coronavirus is spread in more than 150 countries.
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