900,000 Confirmed Covid-19 Cases

The confirmed number of Covid-19 cases worldwide has now gone past 900,000.

In the United States, the numbers have surpassed 200,000 cases yesterday. And I just saw that todate, more than 5,000 have died – of which twenty percent are from the state of New York.

Bloomberg News, citing White House sources, reported on Wednesday that US intelligence officials believe China has undereported both the number of cases and deaths from Covid-19. The extent of the understatement was not disclosed. 

If the Americans don’t have hard evidence to support this “belief”, I wish they would cease and desist from spewing misinformation.

Yesterday too, Spain had already reached 100,000 coronavirus cases and Singapore topped 1,000 confirmed infections.

Meanwhile, Malaysia’s Health Ministry Director-General opined that the Covid-19 curve is flattening. 

According to MIER’s projection, Malaysia would have 4,087 new Covid-19 cases by March 31, with an increase of 200 to 399 new cases per day. 

However, Malaysia has only recorded 2,766 Covid-19 cases as of March 31, a difference of 1,321 cases compared to MIER’s projection. On average, the daily number of new cases is about 100 to 150 in Malaysia since March 23, with an unusual spike of 235 on March 26. 

“The next two weeks are crucial. It will decide whether or not the government’s MCO has produced the intended impact”, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (left) said.

Let's hope he is right because I'm dying from the stay-at-home syndrome.