Washington: The deadly coronavirus doesn’t seem to be in any mood to flatten it’s curve. The cases have been increasing at a rapidly alarming rate. Currently, the total number of infections globally of covid-19 have surpassed the 9 million mark. Deaths caused due to the virus reached to more than 471,000, close to half a million.
According to the reports from John Hopkins University, the cases are getting more each day with countries who’d earlier saw a complete elimination of the virus also seeing new cases. New Zealand reported two new cases on Tuesday, after it was declared coronavirus recently.
This proves that the virus hasn’t left the country and continues to send shivers down the spine of people living in NZ.
Looking at the reports on Tuesday morning, the global covid-19 case numbers stood at 9,073,386 and the deaths rose to 471, 591. These numbers were released by the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) in its recent update.
Surpassing all, the US stands first in the highest number of coronavirus cases with 2,310,786. Total fatalities reported were 120,393, it the report by CSSE.
The second highest are reported from Brazil where there are 1,106,470 cases and 51,271 have been the fatality count.
As far as the cases are concerned, Russia ranks third (591,465), followed by India (425,282), then comes the UK (306,761), Peru (257,447), Chile (246,963), Spain (246,504), Italy (238,720), Iran (207,525), France (197,381), Germany (191,768), Turkey (188,897), Mexico (185,122), Pakistan (181,088), Saudi Arabia (161,005), Bangladesh (115,786), Canada (103,418) and South Africa (101,590), the CSSE figures showed.
The other countries with over 10,000 deaths are the UK (42,731), Italy (34,657), France (29,666), Spain (28,324), Mexico (22,584) and India (13,699).
Now is the time to stay at home and follow precautionary measures to protect oneself and their families from this dreadful virus. Other than maintaining cleanliness and disinfecting methods, we need to postpone our gatherings and meetings to a time when there will be no fear of corona in the world. Gatherings can wait, but the virus won’t.
