India on Monday piped the USA and Brazil to record the highest daily rise in coronavirus cases in the world. This was the first time that India’s daily spike was the highest in the world.
While India recorded 52,783 cases, the USA reported 49,038 and Brazil reported 24,801 cases. This was after many weeks that the USA’s caseload came below 50,000 marks and Brazil listed below 30,000 cases.
In terms of mortality, India was again ahead of both the USA and Brazil, but Mexico recorded the highest number of death on Monday. India recorded 758 deaths, the USA 467, Brazil 514 whereas Mexico listed 784 deaths.
Meanwhile, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO has said the number of cases globally has increased more than 5-fold to 17.5 million and the number of deaths has more than tripled to 6,80,000 since WHO’s emergency committee on Covid last met 3 months ago.
Dr Tedro also said several vaccines are now in phase-3 clinical trials and the world can hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection. However, there’s no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be, he said.
Addressing the Emergency Committee on Covid-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), Dr Tedros said, “The pandemic is a once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. Many countries that believed they were past the worst are now grappling with new outbreaks. Some that were less affected in the earliest weeks are now seeing escalating numbers of cases and deaths. And some that had large outbreaks have brought them under control.”