Coronavirus Update for May 27, 2020

Well, the United States has officially become the first nation in the world to reach the 100,000 death mark due to the coronavirus officially recently. It has over 100,500 deaths, and still climbing, and there have been a total of over 1,725,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 to date. Many experts are worried that the recent swell of people going to public places, and often not wearing masks and not following social distancing protocols, will lead to a new spike of infected. This was particularly true in places like Ozark Lake in Michigan and Daytona Beach in Florida, where huge masses of people had gathered in tight places, and again, with very few people shown in pictures were actually wearing masks in either place.              

Of course, the United States is not the only country with Covid-19 problems, although it is still, far and away, the country with the most confirmed cases and deaths.              

In South America, two countries in particular are experiencing very serious crises: Brazil and Peru. Brazil shot up to the second highest number of total confirmed cases in the world, and now has over 394,000, with over 24,000 deaths from Covid-19. Neighboring Peru, which has a fraction of the overall population of Brazil, has over 129,000 total cases, and has seen officially over 3,700 deaths, although there is speculation that those official numbers might be lower than the real total.              

Europe obviously also remains a hot spot for Covid-19. Russia has the third most total confirmed cases, with over 362,000, although it has officially reported only 3,800 deaths to date. Spain has the next most amount of confirmed cases, with over 283,000, and has suffered over 27,000 deaths. The United Kingdom is next, with over 265,000 confirmed cases, the fifth most of any country in the world, although it has officially had the second most confirmed deaths from the coronavirus, with over 37,000. Italy remains a hotspot as well, with over 230,000 total cases, and well over 32,000 deaths. France and Germany both have over 180,000 confirmed cases, although France has lost over 28,000 people, while Germany has seen only over 8,000 dead. Overall, Europe – particularly western Europe – has been hit especially hard. There have been well over one million confirmed cases in the six combined largest European nations (the ones already mentioned here), with over 136,000 total deaths. There are other smaller countries, particularly Belgium and the Netherlands, that have also been hit very hard proportionally, with over 100,000 confirmed cases and more than 13,000 deaths combined between the two countries, both of which have populaitons well under twenty million. Belarus, Portugal, and Sweden all also have well over 30,000 confirmed cases.              

Otherwise, India continues to see the severity of the Covid-19 crisis rise, with now well over 150,000 total cases, and over 4,000 deaths. It will likely overtake Turkey in terms of both total overall cases and total deaths in the near future.