Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 500 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally. The rise of BA.2 has been blamed for recent surges in China as well as record infections in Europe.
New cases are rising in 20 out of more than 240 countries and territories tracked by ReutersCOVID-19 patients leave a makeshift hospital at the National Exhibition and Convention
Center in Shanghai on April 14. Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 500 million on Thursday as the highly contagious BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron surges in many countries, Canada included.
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