Global coronavirus infection cases top 100 million

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has surpassed 100 million, with an accelerated pace of infection, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday.The figure has doubled in less than three months since reaching 50 million in early November. The death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has already exceeded 2.1 million around the globe, according to the U.S. university data.While some countries are now in the midst of distributing coronavirus vaccines, it remains uncertain when the pandemic will be subdued and economic activities will…READ FULL ARTICLE