As of Wednesday afternoon April 15, there have been 2,024,675 cases of the disease and 128,972 deaths around the world, according to figures from John Hopkins University.
The United States has the largest outbreak in the world with more than 600,000 confirmed cases and nearly 30,000 deaths.
According to WHO figures, there were around 153,000 cases a month ago on March 15, but the figure had risen to 751,000 by March 31.
The global tally passed one million on April 2, and has now doubled again in the space of two weeks.
Billions of people are living under drastic lockdown measures which would have been unthinkable in most democracies until a few weeks ago.
The people under quarantine include all of India's 1.3billion population as well as much of Europe.
Schools, shops, restaurants and sports events have all been closed down in unprecedented measures to halt the spread of the disease, with the Olympic Games postponed for the first time since World War II.
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