Global coronavirus cases surpass one million: U.S. researchers

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Global coronavirus cases surpass one million: U.S. researchers

By Cate Cadell

 

Medical staff in full protective gear carry a patient on a stretcher down a street in Naples, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Italy, April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca

 

(Reuters) - Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 51,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to a tally by a U.S. university.

 

Italy had the most deaths, more than 13,900, followed by Spain. The United States had the most confirmed cases of any country, more than 235,000, said researchers at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

 

Since the virus was first recorded in China late last year, the pandemic has spread around the world, prompting governments to close businesses, ground airlines and order hundreds of millions of people to stay at home to try to slow the contagion.

 

Johns Hopkins in Baltimore said more than 200,000 people had recovered from the disease, more than 75,000 of them in China.

 

Amid unprecedented government steps to prop up economies battered by the outbreak, U.S. weekly jobless claims jumped to a record 6.6 million, double the record from the previous week. That reinforced economists' views that the longest employment boom in U.S. history probably ended in March, and that claims were expected to rise further.

 

New York City morgues and hospitals bent under the strain on Thursday, struggling to treat or bury casualties, as New York state's Governor Andrew Cuomo offered a grim prediction the rest of the country would soon face the same misery.

 

In hard-hit Spain, the death toll rose to more than 10,000 on Thursday after a record 950 people died overnight, but health officials were encouraged by a slowdown in daily increases in infections and deaths.

 

Spain has shed jobs at a record pace since it went into lockdown to fight the coronavirus, social security data showed on Thursday, with some 900,000 workers having lost their jobs since mid-March.

 

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Appearing for the first time since recovering from the virus himself, Britain's health minister Matt Hancock promised a tenfold increase in the number of daily tests for the coronavirus by the end of the month after the government faced criticism for failing to roll out mass checks for health workers and the public.

 

Britain initially took a restrained approach to the outbreak but Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for the virus himself, changed tack and imposed stringent social distancing measures after modelling showed a quarter of a million people in the country could die.

 

In Italy, which hit a daily peak of 6,557 new cases on March 21 and accounts for around 28% of all global fatalities, the death toll climbed to 13,915 on Thursday. But it was the fourth consecutive day in which the number of new cases stayed within a range of 4,050-4,782, seeming to confirm government hopes that the epidemic had hit a plateau.

 

Italy was the first Western country to introduce sweeping bans on movement and economic activity, having first confirmed the presence of coronavirus almost six weeks ago.

 

The first 100,000 cases worldwide of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, were reported in around 55 days and the first 500,000 in 76 days, according to a Reuters tally based on official records.

 

(Reporting by Catherine Cadell and Lisa Shumaker; Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Howard Goller)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-03

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[ukrules]

How long until it doubles again? Another 4 days?

 

At some point the lockdowns should start making a difference, in countries where they're complying.

 

[Stargeezr]

On the news I just heard that a lot of people in the USA died today,  1000 today.

 I see that a lot are still dying daily in Italy and Spain. 950  today

It will be a good day when a vaccine is developed.

Geezer

[frequentatore]

University of Pittsburgh scientists believe they found potential coronavirus vaccine

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/scientists-believe-they-found-potential-coronavirus-vaccine/

[metisdead]

A post with a link to a blog site has been removed as a blog site is not an approved source of information. 

[Tayaout]

5 hours ago, frequentatore said:

University of Pittsburgh scientists believe they found potential coronavirus vaccine

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/scientists-believe-they-found-potential-coronavirus-vaccine/

There is already a couple vaccine candidates. However it takes over a year to test them with the best scenario. Average is 10 years with 96% failure rate. 

Edited April 3, 2020 by Tayaout