WHO reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases

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WHO reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases

 

People enjoy the weather in Central Park, the day before the city starts phase two of reopening after the lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., June 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

 

(Reuters) - The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 183,020 in a 24-hour period.

 

The biggest increase was from North and South America with over 116,000 new cases, according to a daily report.

(https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200621-covid-19-sitrep-153.pdf?sfvrsn=c896464d_2)  Total global cases are over 8.7 million with more than 461,000 deaths, according to the WHO.

 

The previous record for new cases was 181,232 on June 18.

 

(Writing by Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-06-22

 

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[Dap]

Hmmm, infections were noticeably decreasing and then WHAM! now (for no obvious reasons) increasing again. I can't imagine what is going on. Anyone?? 

Edited June 22, 2020 by Dap

[from the home of CC]

as Dr. Osterholm is fond of saying  "we're riding the tiger not directing it" and imo we haven't seen anything yet. Please keep out of Thailand people from countries that obviously value dollars over lives, this virus is in it's infancy stage with only 10% of the population infected..

Edited June 22, 2020 by from the home of CC

[Deli]

South America is really screwed but not a market for Thailand anyhow. India, Bangladesh, well, as well not really a market, except for the end of WS in Patts. USA sad story but how many Americans visited Thailand the last couple of years ? Not too many, I guess. China was the main supplier in nbrs, but who wants them back, apart from maybe the guys in charge ? Aussis are a miss as well as the Europeans, incl. the Russians. It's surprising that Europe doesn't really get it under control. Would be very interesting to see how numbers are distributed between "real" Europeans and Immigrants, as latest outbreak in Germany for instance happended in an immigrant's ghetto housing facility.

[Purdey]

As usual, there are people who really don't get that the virus doesn't care about your religion, social or political beliefs. It is a free market killer. Take off your masks against all sensible advice and get sick. This is exactly what happened in 1918-1919 (and into 1920). History is repeating, that's all.

  

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

Applause please!!! No masks required.

 

Take your pick:

 

--"We have it totally under control."

 

--"It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”

 

--My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.

 

--Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. 

 

--When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

 

--Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. …  And this is their new hoax.

 

--This was unexpected. … And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/837348551/timeline-what-trump-has-said-and-done-about-the-coronavirus

 

 

https://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us

 

 

[sapson]

WHO should follow Prayuts wonderful strategy if you want to keep the Covid 19 numbers low.

 

Simply make testing an absolute last resort and any sickness or deaths should be explained away by any other cause than Covid.

Edited June 22, 2020 by sapson

[tribalfusion001]

South America it's raging and India is not reporting the true death rates, tbh who cares about India anyway.

[Donga]

Covid-19 is at different stages in various parts of the world. By and large the countries between the tropics have much lower rates of death than the Western European nations that got smashed in the middle of their Winter. Not many countries are still raging after three months, unless they have big populations spread over a large area. So much information on this site and can drill down on each country.. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Laugh with some dismay as watch WHO (who should know better) and media play the doom game as they move their focus on those countries in their peak as the others subside. Then the 2nd wave syndrome - remember Japan, then Singapore - couple of clusters brought under control. US and big countries like India, Indonesia are seeing covid-19 move around. For example Jakarta got hit well before Surabaya. This simplistic continuing coverage of doom is hurting the world economically.

As far as record cases - why don't they come clean and admit most countries are testing more. Guess what that's going to do? Duh - more cases. The money man to track is deaths, recognising some countries are not as truthful or lets say accurate as they could be, but that becomes relative over time. This is how cases vs deaths measure up...

[LarryLEB]

4 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

as Dr. Osterholm is fond of saying  "we're riding the tiger not directing it" and imo we haven't seen anything yet. Please keep out of Thailand people from countries that obviously value dollars over lives, this virus is in it's infancy stage with only 10% of the population infected..

The world's current population is estimated at 7.8 billion.  To date, there have been just over 9 million Covid-19 cases reported worldwide.  That means that just over 1% of the world's population has been infected so far (1.15% to be more precise), not 10%.

[honcho]

7 hours ago, Purdey said:

As usual, there are people who really don't get that the virus doesn't care about your religion, social or political beliefs. It is a free market killer. Take off your masks against all sensible advice and get sick. This is exactly what happened in 1918-1919 (and into 1920). History is repeating, that's all.

  

seems the wuhan virus is the only one not racist in the new woke world.... the rest of us should emulate this impartial fair virus our chinese brothers in ccp sent us!!!