Half a Million New Cases in 2 Days

On Friday, coronavirus cases climbed to reach another peak – 12,616,579 infections all around the world. It took a mere two days to amass another half a million cases. 

We are seeing a stubborn comeback of Covid-19 in not a few countries. Needless to say, the US is proudly the No. 1 global pandemic hotspot. 

It is also a troubling situation in countries like Spain, Mexico, Iran, France and Indonesia, all of which recorded new highs – 300,000; 270,000; 250,000; 170,000; and 70,000 cases respectively on Thursday:

India and South Africa are not lacking in ambition – they surpassed 800,000 and 250,000 cases respectively one day later:

Also yesterday, Brazil recorded 70,000 fatalities:

BTW, the country's president Jair Bolsonaro had tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday – and he said he’s taking hydroxychloroquine! Like Donald Trump, he buys into the drug as a cure despite the lack of evidence.

Dr. Mike Ryan (left), executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Program declared Friday it is unlikely that the world can eradicate coronavirus any time soon. 

Didn’t I already say this?!

We have got to learn to live with Covid-19. In any case, the prospect of a vaccine is still a long way off.

Maria Van Kerkhove (right), WHO's technical lead for coronavirus response and head of their emerging diseases and zoonoses unit had asserted: "This is something we all need to anticipate – that there's the possibility that there could be a resurgence, there could be these small outbreaks".

As we are all painfully aware, life has to go on. No choice lah.