Okay, so it has been a relatively long time since the last time that I did one of these things, and I was a bit surprised by the jump in some of these numbers. To begin with, there have been over 16.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the globe to date. Over 663,000 people have died, and nearly 10.5 million people have recovered.
The United States still has far and away the most confirmed cases of coronavirus, with nearly four and a half million confirmed cases. Over 152,000 Americans have died from it, while over 2,180,000 people have recovered. For now, the United States still has over one quarter of the world’s confirmed cases of Covid-19, and has approximately a fifth of all the confirmed deaths from the coronavirus.
However, there are two countries that have drawn much closer to having problems with the coronavirus on the scale that the United States has seen. The first is Brazil, which now has seen over 2,480,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, which included President Jair Bolsonaro, a skeptic of the coronavirus. Brazil has seen over 88,000 deaths from it, while over 1,721,000 people have recovered. In both confirmed cases and deaths, Brazil ranks second behind only the United States.
The other country that has seen a dramatic rise in confirmed cases, as well as deaths, is India, the country with the second largest population in the world. Like in Brazil, many people there live in overcrowded slums, where maintaining social distancing practices is virtually impossible. To date, India has had over one and a half million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with over 34,000 deaths, while just under one million people have recovered there.
After that, Mexico has some real problems with the coronavirus. They have seen over 400,000 confirmed cases, the sixth most confirmed cases of any country in the world, with over 44,000 deaths to date, which is the fourth most deaths of any nation. Over 261,000 people have recovered from it there.
Sticking with the Americas, where several countries have seen major problems with the Covid-19 crisis, both Peru and Chile have huge problems. Peru has over 395,000 confirmed cases, with over 18,000 deaths, and 276,00 recoveries. Chile has had just shy of 350,000 confirmed cases, with over 9,000 deaths, and 322,000 recoveries.
Another country that has seen a dramatic spike in cases is South Africa. Presently, it has now had over 459,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, which is fifth most in the world. But they have only suffered over 7,000 deaths to this point. Over 287,000 people have successfully recovered. Still, South Africa has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis on the African continent.
Europe was the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis for a long time. It still has a bad case of it, with numerous countries still suffering severely from it. Russia has had over 828,000 confirmed cases, with over 13,000 deaths. They have seen over 620,000 people recover. Spain has the next most confirmed cases in Europe, with over 327,000 confirmed cases, and over 28,000 deaths. The United Kingdom has had it quite bad as well, with over 300,000 confirmed cases, and over 45,000 deaths, the third most number of deaths from Covid-19 of any country. Italy, the country that used to be the epicenter of the global pandemic, has had over 246,000 confirmed cases, with over 35,000 deaths (the fifth most of any nation in the world), and nearly 200,000 recoveries. Germany has had over 207,000 confirmed cases, with over 9,000 deaths, and over 192,000 recoveries. And France has had over 183,000 confirmed cases, with over 30,000 deaths, which places them as the seventh highest number of deaths of any nation in the world from coronavirus. Over 80,000 people have recovered from it there.
Some other countries that have seen bad cases of the Covid-19 crisis include Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Bangladesh, and Turkey. Iran has had over 296,000 confirmed cases, and over 16,000 deaths. Pakistan has had over 276,000 confirmed cases, and over 5,800 deaths. Saudi Arabia has over 270,000 confirmed cases, with over 2,700 deaths. Columbia has had over 267,000 cases, with over 9,000 deaths. Bangladesh has had over 229,000 confirmed cases, with 3,000 deaths reported exactly at the time of this blog entry, according to Worldometers. Finally, Turkey has seen over 227,000 cases, with over 5,800 deaths.
Debates rage in several countries about the possibility of reopening, or in some cases shutting down again after a new wave of outbreaks. In the United States, there is a huge debate about the safety of opening schools again starting next month, when many schools are set to reopen in just a matter of weeks.
Source Used: Worldometers:
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