COVID-19 now infecting one million new people every week as global deaths top 500,000

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COVID-19 now infecting one million new people every week as global deaths top 500,000
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The coronavirus pandemic has now topped 10 million cases and half a million deaths worldwide

It took four months after the pathogen first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan to reach 1 million infections. The spread of the coronavirus has steadily accelerated, compressing the time frame to a million additional cases every week now.

The World Health Organization reported almost 190,000 new cases for the 24-hour period through early Sunday, after Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this month that the pandemic has entered “a new and dangerous phase.”'Now is not a good time': Why COVID-19 and lockdown anxiety could be leading to lower birth rates

Governments are increasingly accepting there may be no quick return to life as it was before the pandemic, as economies have been battered by prevention measures that restricted people’s movements and damped consumption. People are still trying to get on with lives that have been interrupted, but more lockdowns and social distancing measures may be looming.Article content continued

In the early stages of the outbreak, officials in the northern hemisphere pointed to the potential that the virus would go away in the summer, with people outside and not in close quarters. Those hopes have been dashed.Article content continued

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