London: The COVID-19 infection has affected over 55 million people and killed 1.3 million worldwide since the pandemic s
truck in March.
Guess the total volume of coronavirus that has wreaked so much havoc in the world?
It’s a minuscule 8 ml, or 0.2 fluid ounces of the virus that has infected so many human lives around the world. In other words, it amounts to a little more than a teaspoon, the Daily Mail has reported.
A standard teaspoon holds 6 ml of liquid.
Australian mathematician Matt Parker has come up with the astounding figure by making several assumptions. But he added that all the COVID-19 virus on the planet would fit inside a shot glass even at the upper end of his estimates.
“All the chaos in the world is down to a teaspoon’s worth of trouble,” he said on his podcast. “A virus particle is very small, it’s just the code to wreck other cells.”