There are many tactics to verify to capture the dark milestone that reached the world on Monday night when he recorded his 20 million COVID-19 case. It’s two Swedes, four Irish, 10 Slovenians. That’s more than the entire population of New York State. The epidemic that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has now spread to 188 countries and regions, affecting all continents of Antarctica.
The United States continues to dominate the world in the total number of cases, having reached its own milestone – in five million – on August 9. Brazil then comes with 3 million; followed by India with 2.2 million; Russia in 890,000; and South Africa, five60,000. The number of deaths worldwide has now surpassed 732,000, again in the United States, to more than 163,000.
Among the 20 most sensitive countries, a list that also includes Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom and Pakistan, there are some minor but encouraging signs. Five-day moving averages showed a downward trend in 11 of those most affected places, and the United States showed a slight improvement. But the other nine saw an increase in cases during the same period.
As with all pandemics, the increase in the number of cases has not been linear from a distance, but is accelerating rapidly. One million instances were needed worldwide from December to April 2. The number then took less than seven weeks to quintupled to five million instances on May 20. The 10 million mark reached just over five weeks later, on June 28. On August 6, the global hit 19 million instances – and is now 20 million. On the other hand, it took about four months for the first million people to be diagnosed, but only four days to sign the top of millions recently.
The slowdown in this trend is based on the fact that the 188 countries and regions meet their component of their infection rates, however, the maximum obligation lies with the top five countries to flatten their national curves. In the United States, the burden falls mainly on the top 3 states, Texas, California, and Florida, which in combination account for more than 40% of new national bodies in the last 14 days, to put their coronavirus genius back in the bottle. At the current global pace, the 21 million mark will be reached before the weekend.