As Daniele Macchini, a doctor in Bergamo, north of Milan, said: the Coronavirus is like a “tsunami that has overwhelmed us.” The global Coronavirus cases are edging towards a million; over 47,249 people have died.
The highest number of deaths are recorded in the U.S., Italy, Spain and France. The fatalities are staggering – 13,155 in Italy, 9,387 in Spain, 5,112 in the U.S., and 4032 in France.
Sadly, the situation is deteriorating – globally and in India. Also, it is painfully clear that we cannot put a date on ending the contagion.
As I write this article, the United States – with the highest number of cases, over 215,300 cases – is the epicentre of this global pandemic. Dr Anthony Fauci – the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the top scientist in the White House team dealing with this crisis – has said that the US might have “millions of infections” and over “100,000 to 200,000” cases of death.
There is now a consensus among the American scientific community that it was a grave error of judgment not to have acquired the necessary capability to test all suspected cases right from January onwards. In comparative terms, South Korea and the U.S. had the first death due to coronavirus on January 20, 2020. Two months later, according to John Hopkins University, the U.S. had 9000 more cases than South Korea.
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