Nigeria, Sept. 17 -- More than 30 million coronavirus infections have been recorded across the world eight months into the pandemic era, data from worldometers.info has revealed.

The official number of global coronavirus cases is now at least five times the number of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to World Health Organization data.

COVID-19, the potentially dangerous pneumonia-like disease caused by the coronavirus and said to have emanated from a local Wuhan market to spread to over 200 countries, have also claimed nearly 950, 000 lives.

That has exceeded the upper range of 290,000 to 650,000 annual deaths linked to influenza.

The latest grim milestone came on Thursday night, about six months after the World ...