Global Covid-19 cases top 2 MILLION – Johns Hopkins University

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The Covid-19 pandemic has exceeded two million infections worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, amid a crisis world health officials say is “10 times deadlier” than 2009's Swine Flu outbreak.

The new milestone came on Monday evening with the latest update of the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, which put total infections globally at 2,019,320, with nearly 120,000 fatalities. As the disease and death tolls continue to soar, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that containment measures should not be relaxed prematurely, as the virus is still spreading rapidly.

“We know that in some countries, cases are doubling every three to four days,” WHO chief  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Monday, noting that Covid-19 has been 10 times more deadly than the H1N1 pandemic. “However, while COVID-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly.”

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April 13, 2020 at 02:43PM
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