At the time of writing (April 2022), more than 500 million people throughout the world, 24 million of them in Germany alone, have caught COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic at the end of 2019.

Women and men become infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in about equal measure. However, the illness often takes a more serious course in men. The proportion of men who die from COVID-19 is about twice as high as the proportion of women.

Current case numbers for Germany are available from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and for the whole world from the World Health Organization (WHO).

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