Covid-19: See How Many People Have Now Been Affected Globally As Nigeria Records 27 Cases

The number of confirmed cases in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic across the world surpassed 300,000 Sunday morning, data from worldometers.info has shown.

In spite of efforts by many governments to block its path, the virus continued to spread across many countries in Europe, the U.S. and Africa over the weekend.

Meanwhile, cases in China where the virus originated from have been on a decline for over a week. This, however, does not mean that the country has overcome the outbreak.

As at time of reporting, the virus has spread to all continents except Antarctica. At least a case of coronavirus has been reported in 188 countries, including Nigeria.

As of Sunday 11:15 GMT, a total of 311,982 people have been infected with 13,071 deaths reported globally.

Meanwhile, it has not all been bad news as 95, 874 people have recovered from the virus and discharged to go home .