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Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
European Union leaders met to navigate a common path out of the pandemic as infections surge in many of their countries, while President Joe Biden set a new goal of administering 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States in his first 100 days in office.
The US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 287,499 deaths from 11,780,820 cases, Mexico with 196,606 deaths from 2,182,188 cases, India with 159,370 deaths from 11,514,331 cases.
With 554,296 deaths and over 30 million confirmed cases, the United States tops the list of twenty countries with the highest recorded infections and deaths in the world.
As aviation industry players have become more optimistic on the resumption of international flights worldwide, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with a leading European diagnostic service provider, for more ease to passengers required to secure negative Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) test results.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 30,362,848 cases as the US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 33,664,909 and 604,71, respectively.
Since vaccines became available, reported coronavirus deaths globally have dropped to around 8,000 per day, after topping out at over 18,000 a day in January. The World Health Organization recorded just fewer than 54,000 deaths last week, the lowest weekly total since last October.