The number of coronavirus cases around the world has passed the 60 million mark. In the meantime, more than 60.3 million people worldwide have been shown to have been infected with the Sars-CoV‑2 pathogen since the beginning of the pandemic. This is the result of surveys by ntv.de, which are based on national authorities and data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Accordingly, the number of Covid-19-related deaths worldwide is more than 1.4 million.