The COVID-19 pandemic is officially 1 year old. While the disease outbreak originally emerged in humans at some point in late 2019, March 11 was the date the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic after the virus had spread across Asia and arrived in Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa.
One year on, here’s a roundup of statistics that reflect how this virus changed the world.
On the year anniversary, there have been 118,129,308 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard as of March 11, 2021.
An estimated 316,600,000 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, as per the New York Times.