Brazil has clocked a one (1) million Covid-19 infections and nearly 49,000 died as of June 20, 2020. It has become the second country to reach a million coronavirus cases.
The United States (US) is leading in the pack in Covid-19 infections. On June 21, The New York Times showed that the US Covid-19 cases are more than 2,265,100 and at least 119,700 deaths.
Russia’s 584,680 infection figures, posted by Anadolu Agency (AA) places it third worst hit by the pandemic in the world. Its death tally is at 8,111 according to AA.
India is fourth in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections. As AS reports today:
“there have been 410,451 cases confirmed, 13,254 people have died and 227,728 people have recovered from the virus.”
The United Kingdom (UK), fifth, confirmed 303,110 infected persons and 42,589 people lost their lives to the deadly virus, reported the BBC.
As far as the death toll goes, Spain at 28, 322 and Spain at 34, 610 are fourth and fifth behind the US, Brazil, and UK in that order.
Unease return to the normal
Having lifted restrictions to allow some economic activities to resume, more positive cases and deaths are expected.
In Africa, coronavirus infections have been rising exponentially in South Africa. By Saturday, June 20, 2020, its cases count stood at 97 302 and deaths at 1, 930 as the Department of Health update confirmed. It is among the top 20 nations afflicted by the epidemic.
Just like many countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas, SA has opened the economic gates for businesses and other socio-economic activities.
Quite recently, the BBC reported that Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro calling coronavirus pandemic a little flu. Further, it reported that hospitals in Brazil are near collapse due to the overwhelming number of admitted Covid-19 patients. From this picturesque, the worst is yet to come for the most populous state South America.
At 8, 857, 137 cases and 465, 826 deaths worldwide, as data published by Johns Hopkins indicated on Sunday, half a million death toll is on the horizon.
Seen in this way, it is an astounding statistic. Yet it pales when squared with the estimated 50 million plus that perished under the Spanish flu in the 1917s and 1918s.
In the face of the Covid-19 in 2020, the world is spared this morbid and indiscriminate body count thanks to the strides made in harnessing technology and manpower.