Novel Coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, cases have now surpassed 90 million around the world, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide.

The number of infections worldwide has doubled in just 10 weeks, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University on Sunday. COVID-19 infections had hit 45 million as recently as late October. As of Sunday afternoon, 90,005,787 cases were waround the world.