COVID-19 deaths worldwide surpass 650,000, WHO urges action to stop transmission
COVID-19 infections worldwide saw a daily hike of 226,783 in the past 24 hours, staying above 200,000 for 13 consecutive days and bringing the total to 16,341,920, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
The latest situation report released on Tuesday said the death toll around the world increased by 4,153 to 650,805, with the Americas reporting more than half of the fatalities, in terms of the total and daily increase.
Countries around the world should implement strict health measures to suppress the virus transmission and save lives, including mass testing, strict quarantine, social distancing and wearing a mask, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a virtual news briefing on Monday.
“Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they’re not, cases go up,” he said, praising countries such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Thailand, China, Germany and South Korea.
The agency believes that countries have to contain the virus outbreak at home in order to lift travel bans.
“It is going to be almost impossible for individual countries to keep their borders shut for the foreseeable future,”
said Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program.
“Economies have to open up, people have to work, trade has to resume,” he said.
Source: Xinhua
Depressing, but factorially correct.
If we take (5) five months, the catastrophic global mess the world has found itself in, and ongoing, in continuous communication that is being beamed out to us, that is not good news, for the global world.
America is a Humanitarian disaster.
America is a Shambles.
The world looking on at America, there has to be anger or agitation at the American approach, its ongoing handling of this novel coronavirus.
Death’s that total in excess of 150.000 and active growing cases of deaths and new cases that total in excess of 2 million American human beings.
There still has not been a vaccine discovered that will immunize human beings against contacting this deadly virus.
Quote of Winston. Spencer. Churchill is fitting :
” Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
What challenging times to Mankind we live, and my perception view of life is as an optimist, but that is being tested.
Stay Well – ALL.