UK Surpasses 10,000 Covid-19 Deaths

The UK becomes the fifth country to surpass 10,000 deaths, joining the US, Italy, Spain and France – after 737 fatalities were recorded on Sunday. The figure now stands at 10,612. 

Note that these figures do not include deaths outside of hospitals.

One doomsayer, Jeremy Farrar (right) who is Wellcome Trust director and a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, fans fears that the UK will end up as the country with the most virus deaths in Europe. Oh, c’mon! 

I don’t think so – and the UK populace, I’m sure, don’t believe it too. So-called experts like him should stop the scare-mongering. 

I recall what Ireland’s Health Minister Simon Harris (right) told broadcaster Virgin Media on Thursday: “There is going to be a point in this country where we will have to live alongside the virus, for want of a better phrase, where sadly people will still get sick and sadly some people will still die but it is at a rate that is sustainable for our doctors to manage”.

FYI, Ireland's Covid-19 status:

BTW, it’s not just only Ireland but the rest of the world too. 

In the meantime, it would seem that Russia is trying to make up for lost time because it reported 2,186 new coronavirus cases – the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak – bringing the national tally of confirmed infections to 15,770. 

In the Netherlands, health authorities on Sunday said the number of confirmed cases has topped 25,000 – with 1,188 new infections over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 25,587. 

And Malaysia doesn’t seem able to “flatten the curve”, despite today is MCO's twenty-seventh day. As at the end of yesterday, 153 new confirmed cases have been reported, raising the cumulative total to 4,683, the highest in Southeast Asia.

If I may add, things are not looking up for the other countries as well.