Corona Virus Pandemic has spread all across the world in
last 3-4 months. The deadly virus outbreak started from Wuhan, China in late
2019 and now has presence in almost all the countries in the world.
China claims that as on today 81,500 people got infected
with Covid19 while 3,300 Chinese people died. However, not many people believes
in official figures declared by Chinese authorities. Many fear that number of
death in China are much much higher and China is hiding the truth. This
argument looks much more relevant in last 15-20 days when Italy, France, Spain
and the US are reporting much higher
numbers.
On 2 April 2020, total corona virus cases in the world
crossed 1 million mark with USA reporting 240,000 + cases. Italy (115,000) and
Spain (110,000) are at second and third position respectively. The US and
Western Europe are badly affected regions where all major cities are witnessing
lock down for as long as 4 to 6 weeks. New York alone has 92,000 cases as on
today with 2,300 + deaths.
Globally, 52,500 people lost their lives due to corona virus
pandemic till now. Italy lost 13,900 people due to outbreak which is highest in
the world followed by Spain with 10,096 deaths. The US (5,800), France (5,387)
and Iran (3,160) are also experiencing rapidly increasing fatalities.
While on a positive side, more than 210,000 people recovered
from the disease. Currently, the recovery rate is 80% across all patients
globally. However, most of European nations have lower recovery rate due to
aging population. Also, total number of cases per million of population in the
Europe and the US are much higher compared with rest of the world. Same is true
for number of deaths.
The rate of increase in number of people getting infected
has increased in last 10-15 days. For last 4-5 days more than 60,000 people are
getting infected with Corona Virus on daily basis. While about 4,000 people are
losing life due to Covid2019 outbreak.
The next 15 days are really crucial for the world as most of
the nations are observing strict lock down. Moreover one of most populas nation
the world, India has announced 21 Days Nationwide lock down till 14th
April 2020.
Source: Worldometers
