On Friday, 17.5 million coronavirus cases have been logged worldwide. As well as 680,000 deaths.
The biggest increases were from the US (+70,904), India (+57,704), Brazil (+52,509), South Africa (+11,014) and Colombia (+9,488) – and these five countries already account for 71.5% of the global daily case-count.
And if you add up the daily cases of the Top Twelve countries – see below – their combined tally yielded 82.9% of the world total. Surely, that tells you something.
The US has dashed past 4.7 million cases and two days earlier, Peru streaked past 400,000 cases.
In the meantime, Bangladesh saw 3,000 deaths on Tuesday and yesterday, Colombia, South Africa and the Philippines registered 10,000, 8,000 and 2,000 deaths respectively.
And Vietnam recorded its first Covid-19 death and a second, also yesterday.
At the risk of repeating myself, the world must accept the fact that it has to learn to accommodate Covid-19. Like it or not, we must co-exist with it; we have no choice.
As Melbourne, Australia has demonstrated all too well, stay-at-home is not working out.
It’s worth noting the reminder from Greece’s Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias – that to combat the pandemic, every individual must take responsibility. It’s really as simple as that.
Malaysians, to please take note that masks are mandatory starting today:
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