With the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world, the cases have passed the milestone of 10 million, as our source, Johns Hopkins University in the US confirms.
The virus emerged in China late last year and spread across the globe. It has led to a little below 500,000 deaths.
With almost Half the world’s cases have come from the US and Europe, but Covid-19 is now rapidly growing in the Americas.
The virus is also travailing in South Asia and Africa, where it is not expected to be at its peak until the end of July.
With The US reporting a total of 2.5 million cases and 125,000 deaths with Covid-19 so far – more than any other country.
The pestilent are still spreading in many parts of the world, with a million new cases has been recorded in the last 6 days.
The Nation that has the second-highest number after the US recorded cases is Brazil, with a total of 1.3 million, and deaths in excess of 57,000. Even with the wave of new infections, the state of Rio de Janeiro has said it will allow football stadiums to reopen to fans from 10 July – for a start at one-third capacity.
In another news, The UK with the greatest number of deaths in Western Europe, the government is planning to impose its first local lockdown following a surge in new cases in Leicester city.
On Sunday, China has imposed a strict lockdown near Beijing to curb a fresh outbreak. Almost half a million people will be barred from traveling in and out of Anxin county, Hebei province.
