Question

They also reported that the world total case count was at 124,550,506.

Answer 1

Part A

The total cases by March 24, 2021, is computed by finding the sum from all the countries as follow

`29995669+11734058+4433364+4373837+4326623+2709834`

The sum is computed to be

`57573385`

Which is

`57.573385\text{ million}`

This value doesn't agree with the reported count of 124,550,506

Because if we approximate each entry to the nearest million and then add the numbers together, we will not have up to 100 million cases.

So the reported cases is false