The COVID Diaries – 127 3rd August
According to records being kept by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, confirmed cases of coronavirus have now passed 18 million. The university’s coronavirus resource centre has counted 18,147,574 cases at with 690,573 deaths. The worst affected countries by caseload were the United States, Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa.
In depressing news, the World Health Organisation warned there might never be a “silver bullet” for Covid-19 in the form of a perfect vaccine, and the road to normality could be long. The WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the emergencies chief, Mike Ryan, exhorted nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as mask-wearing, social distancing, hand-washing and testing.