World Sees Biggest Single-Day Jump in COVID-19 Cases

[RandySF]

(NEWSER) – As the US and other Western countries take steps toward reopening, the pandemic is still raging in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday. "We still have a long way to go in this pandemic," said WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus, per the Guardian. "We are very concerned about rising cases in low- and middle-income countries." He said that in the past 24 hours, 106,000 new coronavirus cases were reported worldwide—the highest single-day total so far. According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, global infections are approaching the 5 million mark, with Russia and Brazil now second and third behind the US, which has the most confirmed cases.




https://www.newser.com/story/291187/world-sees-biggest-single-day-jump-in-covid-19-cases.html

[elleng]

1. Will the U.S. population control itself,

or decide to 'play' in spite of huge health threats?

A real test of character, and I'm afraid we'll lose.

[Skittles]

5. we already know the answer to that

look how many Americans actually VOTED for that ass clown

[uponit7771]

2. Why ?! Why don't western countries just do what South Korea has done and over test for a given

... amount of time, trace and quarantine ... WTF is wrong with people !?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. See why I'm a hermit?

My big mistake was settling in before finding out it's a red, red area.

Republicans are hazardous to humanity.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[captain queeg]

6. And just like in the US the numbers don't represent the true scale of infection.

5 million known cases. I’m sure it’s many times more than that. I guess that might be a good thing since so far testing for antibodies is so limited. For all we know a billion people could have already been infected and were asymptomatic.

At least in America we really ought to have a clearer picture by now but thanks to trump we are still running blind

[ProfessorGAC]

7. +1 (nt)

[tanyev]

8. Um, the US is taking steps toward reopening IN SPITE of the fact that very little has been done

to get the virus under control. The only thing that has slowed it down a bit is the social distancing we've been doing. Once that ends, all bets are off.