Global coronavirus cases top 60 million: Johns Hopkins

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The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassed the 60 million mark Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The US-based university has recorded 60,186,902 infections and 1,417,319 deaths since the virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year.

The US continues to be hardest hit by the disease, with more than 261,000 deaths and over 12.7 million cases, followed by India with 9.2 million cases, Brazil with 6.1 million and France with 2.2 million.

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WHO estimates at least 750 million "cases". The IFR indicates that is no worse than the flu.


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WHO Estimates 750 Million People Have Had the Virus, for an Infection Fatality Rate of 0.13%
Ronan McGreevy

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That's flu-level lethality

An estimated 750 million, or 10 per cent of the world’s population, have been infected by Covid-19, World Health Organisation (WHO) official Dr Mike Ryan has said.
The Irish-born executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme said he was worried for the fate of the 90 per cent of people who have not had the disease.
He estimated 10 per cent as “our best guess” in relation to the global rate of infection to date and those who have antibodies for the virus.
“The problem is there is more than six billion left [No there isn’t. There are plenty who were never susceptible to begin with.]. Therein lies our problem,” he told webinar hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) entitled Learning from Pandemics: a Century of Experience.
Dr Ryan predicted the world is in “for a hell of a ride for the next eight or nine months” [I’m sure you have every intention of making it such.] as it awaits a vaccine, but he cautioned that a vaccine will “not be a silver bullet, but an additional tool that should be
Source: The Irish Times