Nearly 30 million people have contracted Covid-19 around the world by MattRyanPerez
In total, there have been 942,631 reported deaths, with the U.S. again leading with over 197,000 fatalities, followed by Brazil with around 134,000 and India with 83,200.
After successfully mitigating the spread of the virus early on during the pandemic, European countries are now experiencing what WHO Regional DirectorFacing the prospect of a difficult flu season coinciding with Covid-19, the U.S. is struggling with the return of students to schools and universities, with several districts and colleges already being forced back to fully digital learning following outbreaks.
There are currently 40 vaccines being tested in human clinical trials, with nine in large-scale Phase 3 studies, according to the, but health experts warn that even if a vaccine is found to be safe and effective by December at the earliest, it will take an extended amount of time to both manufacture and distribute enough vaccines to build immunity in populations.
The chief science officer at WHO, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, as well as billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, said that people shouldn’t expect to return to their pre-coronavirus lifestyles until at least 2022, given that reality.“We’re still at the beginning of it,” said Dr. David Nabarro, a WHO special envoy on Covid-19, according to the. “None of us find the present situation anything other than horrible, grotesque, really embarrassing.”. Despite having around 4% of the total world population, the U.S.
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