According to data provided by Johns Hopkins University, the number of people in the world who have been infected by Covid-19 is over 74 million, which is just a shade below 77 million, which will mean that one in every 100 people in the world will have been infected. Also, the number of Covid-19 fatalities is 1.64 million at present which is a huge tally of deaths to have occurred since the pandemic surfaced in Wuhan just about a year back allegedly in the wet markets. Business and markets had tumbled to a record low at the peak of the pandemic and though vaccinations have started in US, UK, China and Russia, the pandemic is still not under control. However, the world has recovered substantially economically with the aggregate market capitalization of all the listed companies in the world having reached $ 100.5 trillion recently, an all-time high. America has fared the best with $ 41.6 having been from American listed companies itself with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Google and Microsoft having been involved in record business despite the adverse impact of the pandemic. However, it is still to be seen if with the development of vaccines, the number of infections will be curbed and fatalities will be reined in.
