Coronavirus: WHO Reports Record Daily Rise In New Infections

[appalachiablue]

Source: BBC News

48 mins ago.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded a record one-day rise in the number of new coronavirus infections, with 307,930 reported over 24 hours. The agency said that deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 917,417.

The biggest increases in infections were reported in India, the US and Brazil. Worldwide there have been more than 28 million confirmed cases, half of which have been in the Americas. The previous one-day record for new cases was on 6 September when the WHO reported 306,857 new infections.

Where are cases rising most steeply? According to the WHO, India reported 94,372 new cases on Sunday, followed by the US with 45,523 and Brazil with 43,718. More than 1,000 new deaths were recorded in the US and India while Brazil said 874 people had died from Covid-19 related illness in the past 24 hours.

India has the second largest number of confirmed cases in the world, behind the US. Last week it reported nearly two million Covid-19 cases in August, the highest monthly tally in the world since the pandemic began...

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In the US, almost a quarter of the world's total number of coronavirus cases have been recorded- more than 6 million.

It saw an increase in the number of daily cases in July, but the numbers have fallen since then.

> The US has the world's highest recorded death toll from Covid-19, with more than 194,000 fatalities.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. It might be noted that India has a population of 1.2 billion (over three times ours) and...

has extreme poverty and lack of sanitation over much of its area.

What's our excuse?

[riversedge]

2. Our 'excuse' is to have elected a lazy science denier Trump

[truthisfreedom]

3. We now know that he's perfectly aware of the science involved, and always was.

We now know, due to Woodward, that he chose to play dumb because he needed wall street to get him re-elected. We now know that he rolled the dice and lost.

[BigmanPigman]

4. New cases is increasing but new deaths is decreasing.

If you look at the US, India and Brazil, the US and Brazil are very similar. New deaths per 1 M pop is about 600 for each country while India's is only 59. New cases per 1M pop for the US and Brazil is about 20,300 while India's is 3,500.

The countries in Europe are seeing a lot of new cases but very few new deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[LisaL]

5. Deaths, as we well know, lag behind cases.

NT

[left-of-center2012]

6. Trump's America

“US reported 45,523 new cases on Sunday, and more than 1,000 new deaths.

The US has the world's highest recorded death toll from Covid-19, with more than 194,000 fatalities.

The US has recorded almost a quarter of the world's total number of coronavirus cases - more than six million.”

[TomCADem]

7. It is amazing in the US given that number of tests has gone down...

...yet cases have stayed steady. The reason why it is not really sticking out is that new cases had started to trend down in California, Texas, and New York. Of course, Texas has had some recent data issues.