The statistics of August 16 were published on the website of the World Health Organization.
Over the past 24 hours, 267 291 new cases of Coronavirus infection have been detected and 5 985 people have died in the world.
In the last 24 hours, 9 103 people have infected and 190 have died in Africa, 149 645 new cases were discovered and 3 843 have died in the region of America, 13 401 new infected were detected in the Mediterranean Region, 343 have died, 19 888 new infections have been reported in the European region, 410 have died, 69 064 have been infected in Southeast Asia and 1 031 have died, 6 190 people have been infected in the Western Pacific, 168 have died.
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