COVID crisis may get "worse and worse": WHO sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by 1 million in five days

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COVID crisis may get "worse and worse": WHO sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by 1 million in five days

By Gayle Issa

 

FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a news conference on the coronavirus (COVID-2019) in Geneva, Switzerland February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - The number of coronavirus infections around the world hit 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by a million in just five days.

 

The pandemic has now killed more than half a million people in six-and-a-half months, and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there would be no return to the "old normal" for the foreseeable future, especially if preventive measures were neglected.

 

"Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one," he told a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva.

 

"If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go, it is going to get worse and worse and worse. But it does not have to be this way."

 

Reuters' global tally, which is based on government reports, shows the disease accelerating fastest in Latin America.

 

The Americas account for more than half the world’s infections and half the deaths.

 

Parts of the world, especially the United States with more than 3.3 million confirmed cases, are still seeing huge increases in a first wave of COVID-19 infections, while others "flatten the curve" and ease lockdowns.

 

Some places, such as the Australian city of Melbourne and Leicester in England, are implementing a second round of shutdowns. Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, albeit with a low 1,522 cases, is to tighten social distancing measures again amid growing worries about a third wave.

 

The United States reported a daily global record of 69,070 new infections on July 10. In Brazil, 1.86 million people have tested positive, including President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 72,000 people have died.

 

The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization has warned.

 

"POLITICAL FOOTBALL"

The U.S. state of Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases in 24 hours on Sunday, more than South Korea's total since the disease was first identified at the end of last year. It tallied another 12,624 new cases on Monday.

 

Coronavirus infections are rising in about 40 U.S. states, according to a Reuters comparison of the past two weeks and the prior two weeks.

 

Yet U.S. President Donald Trump and White House officials have repeatedly said the disease is under control and that schools must reopen in the autumn.

 

"The president and his administration are messing with the health of our children," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on CNN's "State of the Union" programme.

 

"We all want our children to go back to school, parents do and children do. But they must go back safely."

 

WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan urged countries not to turn schools into "another political football", saying they could safely reopen once the virus had been suppressed.

 

The leader of the Spanish region of Catalonia urged residents of an area of 160,000 people where cases have surged to stay at home, despite a judge's ruling throwing out a mandatory lockdown.

 

Spain, which has been one of the European countries worst hit by the coronavirus, lifted nationwide confinement last month, when the pandemic seemed to have come under control.

 

After the first cases were reported in China around the new year, it took three months to reach one million cases. But it has taken just five days to climb to 13 million cases from 12 million.

 

India, the country with the third highest number of infections, has been contending with an average of 23,000 new infections each day since the beginning of July.

 

In countries with limited testing capacity, case numbers reflect a smaller proportion of total infections. Experts say official data probably under-represents both infections and deaths.

 

(For a Reuters interactive graphic, open this link in an external browser: tmsnrt.rs/2Zedzk8)

 

(Reporting by Gayle Issa, Stephanie Nebehay, Michael Shields and Silke Koltrowitz, Writing by Nick Macfie and Kevin Liffey; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Peter Graff)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-07-14

 

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[mike787]

May???????   It is, my god...Covid mutates, swine and regular flu what more is needed - nuclear war.

[Berti]

Better not to read news anymore.

Just look at the raw numbers like https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

You will find out that a lot of news is just bs

[Don Chance]

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, African countries, they will never been able to get rid of Covid unless they get a vaccine.

Thailand, Vietnam and other seem in a good position as long as they quarantine people for 14 days.

[Tug]

He’s spot on use The United States as an example of not following safe protocols combined with incompetent leadership never in my life did I think my country would be humiliated to this degree it’s a disgrace 

[bodga]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the virus remains public enemy number one,"

1.35  million road  deaths per  year disagrees  with that.

[ezzra]

And there are still many who don't get it and thinks that this is some kind of a flu and very soon there will be a vaccine for it, many are still not wearing masks, mingling with others and prefer their comfort and life style on any common sense restrictions and thus feeding the virus, and until such time people will get it, this pandemic will be with us killing  and making us sick and ruin our economy's future...

[Puchaiyank]

Brace yourself...this virus may be with us the rest of our days...never to be completely eradicated...

 

Thailand may one day be forced to completely reopen for business...because they must to survive and compete in international commerce...

[LomSak27]

2 hours ago, drizzel said:

So this killer machine the Killer virus, is NOT The killer Virus what he say before. 

The numbers are lower than the flu in 2018.

 

Welcome To Thaivisa drizzel! Always a pleasure to greet new members. 

 

BTW Powerful posts, I can't wait for your next 24 hours as a member. Godspeed.

[drizzel]

6 minutes ago, car720 said:

Let me get this right.  You are saying that the whole thing is a nonsense and that we should go about our normal lives without caring whatsoever, e.g. attending protests etc., etc..  Just how many have died now since the beginning of this year compared to perhaps how many died during the last war.  But of course they don't matter at all.

It is a virus, but not a killer virus.
And we can think for ourselves, and do not need any force or powers to save ourselves, we have been doing this for thousands of years.
Fear and control is worse for humans than the cure for this virus, it costs society too much and kills many.
I normally travel the world, Thailand is my favorite.
Now people suffer too much, and much remains hidden poverty, depression, and so on, this is terrible.
  In 2018, the flu in the Netherlands had many more deaths, and we were not so crazy with measures.
A vaccine is not a cure, it is for the weak in society (iam Diabetic). Or the older fellow man.
Of course we have to be careful, but these measures are excessive.

 

"Wrong information spreads like a virus"     By Prof. Bob de Wit and Prof. Bo van der Rhee

[BritManToo]

24 minutes ago, car720 said:

Let me get this right.  You are saying that the whole thing is a nonsense and that we should go about our normal lives without caring whatsoever, e.g. attending protests etc., etc..  Just how many have died now since the beginning of this year compared to perhaps how many died during the last war.  But of course they don't matter at all.

I'm happy to say the whole thing is a nonsense, live your life, accept death when it comes.

[drizzel]

Thank you Mr: LomSak27

 

Greetings from The Netherlands, ????????

 

[rupert the bear]

the no of cases has gone way higher and the no of deaths way lower,whats that tell us?its not as deadly as we were told thats a clear statistic,it will get lower ,the death rate as we will test more outside of the sick with symptoms and the hospital workers who r most exposed and we will find many more cases and they wont be heading to the morgue.lets see how low it does go,endda the mnth and WHO and co will be scurrying to spin this .MSM will be on overtime telling us we all could get it no doubt.but almost no ones dying ,ummm wheres that leave us?with a rate of death that will resemble what other respiratory disease ?well lets check the stats and the trend in a few weeks from now but i know where my money is and it aint on WHO china or the generals.what do those 3 have in common,now come on be polite TV dont allow that kind of language

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

And there are still many who don't get it and thinks that this is some kind of a flu and very soon there will be a vaccine for it, many are still not wearing masks, mingling with others and prefer their comfort and life style on any common sense restrictions and thus feeding the virus, and until such time people will get it, this pandemic will be with us killing  and making us sick and ruin our economy's future...

The sooner it does get endemic the better, IMO. Most will suffer little more than flu symptoms and the world gets to herd immunity sooner than by lockdowns and hiding in our rooms.

It kills few as a %, though that is never mentioned by government and WHO propaganda.

If we wait for a vaccine the world economies will be destroyed, IMO.

 

and very soon there will be a vaccine for it,

Hardly. Best estimates are a year and that risks a defective vaccine from not being tested enough. I certainly wouldn't be injected with anything that came out this year.

[Isaan sailor]

Take a bow, CCP and WHO.  Working hand in hand, you’ve successfully suppressed information and infected the world with your Wuhan virus, disrupted economies, and devastated families.

[steelepulse]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm happy to say the whole thing is a nonsense, live your life, accept death when it comes.

I quite agree.  If you are scared, either educate yourself and get your immune system up and the bad food intake down, or else stay locked up.  

 

As for the rest of us that are healthy, time to get back to living a normal life, not this " New normal nonsense".

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, car720 said:

Let me get this right.  You are saying that the whole thing is a nonsense and that we should go about our normal lives without caring whatsoever, e.g. attending protests etc., etc..  Just how many have died now since the beginning of this year compared to perhaps how many died during the last war.  But of course they don't matter at all.

Nearly 17 million died in Russia alone last world war. How many have died world wide because of Corona, not with Corona?

[BritManToo]

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

and very soon there will be a vaccine for it,

Hardly. Best estimates are a year and that risks a defective vaccine from not being tested enough. I certainly wouldn't be injected with anything that came out this year.

Who wants a repeat of 'Swine Flu' vaccine that damaged a load of kids forever (narcolepsy).

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-35472926

[grumpy 4680]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

       It's good of him to keep reminding us this tragedy widens, Damn shame he couldn't see the Chinese lies at the very beginning, I can understand Trumps anger, but Trump is equally foolish.

[Tchooptip]

7 hours ago, Berti said:

Better not to read news anymore.

Just look at the raw numbers like https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

You will find out that a lot of news is just bs

I prefer this one 

https://corona.help/

[grumpy 4680]

54 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Take a bow, CCP and WHO.  Working hand in hand, you’ve successfully suppressed information and infected the world with your Wuhan virus, disrupted economies, and devastated families.

      Yes, and taken advantage of the situation to expand, and supply useless PPE, to idiots who believe they are being friendly.

      Watched an interesting video yesterday, China shut down internal flights before international, to allow the virus to spread. In other words, keeping their infections down to a few thousand, whilst waiting for the rest of the world to burn.

[hlj]

Who is on China's side completely now. Who postponed telling the world of the virus and it's seriousness. The first report I had was back in September, 2019. Maybe just maybe China did think it was just a flu, I do not know. But from September to December with more cases coming and a warning from a Chinese doctor I personally think they knew about the covad-19 and was just covering it. Then Who was called in and guess what the Chinese government is building a research center for the leader for Who in his home country. This is for Who holding their information back for a while. There are no way of finding out now where the virus started with the Chinese destroying all information.

[Phoenix Rising]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The sooner it does get endemic the better, IMO. Most will suffer little more than flu symptoms and the world gets to herd immunity sooner than by lockdowns and hiding in our rooms.

So herd immunity from Covid-19 has been proven?

[Eric Loh]

I can only surmise from this piece of news that Asia did well to manage the pandemic while the rest of the world especially USA is getting worse. Bores down to leadership and not sticking to blaming even after six and a half month from the first reported case. Still time for these countries to turn things around with able leadership and allowing science and not politics to lead. 

[Phoenix Rising]

11 minutes ago, hlj said:

Who is on China's side completely now. Who postponed telling the world of the virus and it's seriousness. The first report I had was back in September, 2019. Maybe just maybe China did think it was just a flu, I do not know. But from September to December with more cases coming and a warning from a Chinese doctor I personally think they knew about the covad-19 and was just covering it. Then Who was called in and guess what the Chinese government is building a research center for the leader for Who in his home country. This is for Who holding their information back for a while. There are no way of finding out now where the virus started with the Chinese destroying all information.

You make a lot of very serious allegations. Care to back them up with some credible sources?

 

PS. Don't worry, I don't expect you to answer.

[Logosone]

20 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

I can only surmise from this piece of news that Asia did well to manage the pandemic while the rest of the world especially USA is getting worse. Bores down to leadership and not sticking to blaming even after six and a half month from the first reported case. Still time for these countries to turn things around with able leadership and allowing science and not politics to lead. 

Total BS.

 

Germany is not getting worse, Covid is still very much under control. Last I checked Germany was not in Asia.

 

Same with Norway, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Malta, Liechtenstein. 

 

None of those are in Asia.

 

The reality is of course that China, Japan, Thailand et al have not made a serious attempt at testing, and the figures that come out of Asia bear about as much semblance to reality as Rambo did to politics in Afghanistan.

 

Nobody trusts the numbers coming out of Asia, and with very good reason.

 

At least Europe made a real effort to be transparent and give honest figures. The same can not be said of Asia.

 

 

[vermin on arrival]

4 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Total BS.

 

Germany is not getting worse, Covid is still very much under control. Last I checked Germany was not in Asia.

 

Same with Norway, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Malta, Liechtenstein. 

 

None of those are in Asia.

 

The reality is of course that China, Japan, Thailand et al have not made a serious attempt at testing, and the figures that come out of Asia bear about as much semblance to reality as Rambo did to politics in Afghanistan.

 

Nobody trusts the numbers coming out of Asia, and with very good reason.

 

At least Europe made a real effort to be transparent and give honest figures. The same can not be said of Asia.

 

 

You may find this interesting, especially the antibody tests. Apparently 20,000 out of 100,000 at risk people tested in Thailand had covid antibodies. Why was this not in the Nation or Bangkok Post?

 

I cannot cut and paste since it is content protected.

 

https://bangkokherald.com/coronavirus/new-evidence-casts-doubts-on-accuracy-of-thailands-official-coronavirus-statistics/

[rabas]

41 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

So herd immunity from Covid-19 has been proven?

It's been proven likely not possible. From top journal Lancet:

 

COVID-19 Immunity: Lancet study suggests herd immunity may not be possible, antibodies found only in 5% of test population in Spain

[Xaos]

[vermin on arrival]

13 minutes ago, rabas said:

It's been proven likely not possible. From top journal Lancet:

 

COVID-19 Immunity: Lancet study suggests herd immunity may not be possible, antibodies found only in 5% of test population in Spain

Hi Rabas. A couple of interesting articles on it:

 

The first one posits a couple potentially much lower herd immunity % than previously and talks about t-cell immunity and cross coronations immunity and different scenarios. The second puts forward that up to 30% are immune based on cross covronavirus immunity and t cell response.

 

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-could-it-be-burning-out-after-20-of-a-population-is-infected-141584

 

https://medium.com/@vernunftundrichtigkeit/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong-fce6db5ba809