More than 55 million have been infected worldwide by Covid-19, as the virus runs rampant in many parts of the world. And 1,331,254 lives have been sacrificed.
Mexico becomes the eleventh country to surpass one million cases.
And Bulgaria is the latest nation to join fifty-seven other countries, having notched up more than 100,000 cases.
These 58 countries have collectively contributed 94.6% and 96.2% of the total global infections and fatalities respectively.
We may have cause to worry, going by the above numbers – but the damage to the world's major economies is even more perturbing because it is four times worse than the 2009 global financial crisis, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Even the UN have warned that up to 265 million people could face starvation by the end of the year because of the impact of Covid-19.
It's a global calamity on an unparalleled and unprecedented scale.
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