TIME Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TIME MagazineInstagram)「It took from December until April 2 before one million COVID-19 cases were recorded worldwide. The number then took less than seven weeks to quintuple to 5 million cases, on May 20. The 10 million milestone was reached just over five weeks later, on June 28. On Aug. 6, the world hit 19 million cases—and now it's 20 million. Looked at another way, it took nearly four months for first million people to be diagnosed, but just 4 days to record the most recent million. (Global deaths have surpassed 750,000; the outbreak has spread to 188 countries and regions, touching every continent but Antarctica.) Slowing that trend depends on all of those 188 countries and regions doing their part to control their infection rate, writes Jeffrey Kluger, but the majority of the responsibility lies with the big five countries—U.S., Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa—to flatten their domestic curves. Read more at the link in bio. In this photograph: a Catholic priest leads a prayer with soldiers pausing to disinfect the currently closed Christ the Redeemer area, ahead of what tourism officials hope will be a surge in visitors as health restrictions are eased, in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 13. Photograph by Silvia Izquierdo—@apnews」8月13日 23時09分