Covid-19 Numbers

On July 2 the world has reached another milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, 200,000 people have been reportedly tested positive for Covid-19 in a single day. Currently, over 4,3 million active cases are reported worldwide.

On Thursday, there were 55,274 new Covid-19 reported in the United States, breaking both a single-day record and daily global record. Florida reported over 10,000 cases, also a single-day record, and Texas around 8,000 cases. Infections are rising in 37 U.S. states. Almost 129,000 people have died from a Covid-19 infection.

The Brazilian Health Ministry announced Thursday its daily Covid-19 report with 48,105 new cases and 1,252 deaths. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Brazil accounted for 1,496,858 infected with a death toll of 61,884.

The United States reported its highest daily case count with around 50,000 new confirmed Covid-19 infections on Wednesday. Several states, including California, Texas and Georgia, hit single-day case records.

The world has reached two milestones during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 10,000,000 people worldwide have now been tested positive for Covid-19, of which over 5,400,000 have already been recovered. In total over 500,000 have now died from the coronavirus.

France's government reports 1588 new Coronavirus cases in one single day on Friday. The country averaged around 500 daily cases in the past week and around 430 daily cases since May 30th.

In a press conference on Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a temporary pause on reopening measures amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations. The state reported almost 6,000 new cases on Thursday and a record high for Covid-19 hospitalisations.

"The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses. This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business," so the Governor.

On Thursday, C.D.C. director Dr Robert Redfield warned that the numbers of Covid-19 infections are most likely to be 10 times higher than the official numbers of 2.3 million, basing these assumptions on recent antibody test results.

"Now that serology tests are available, which test for antibodies, the estimates we have right now show about 10 times more people have antibodies in the jurisdictions tested than had documented infections," so Redfield.

The consortium of Brazilian media companies, compiling data from state health authorities, announced Thursday Brazil recorded 40,673 new confirmed cases of the Covid-19 in the past 24 hours as well as 1,180 deaths.

The country has now a death toll of 55,054, and 1,233,147 confirmed cases.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow has stated that "We’re going to have hot spots, no question" in regards to the surging numbers of Covid-19 cases in the United States as the country previously recorded the day with the highest number of new cases so far. He added that Americans "just have to live with that".

The United States have recorded the highest number of new Covid-19 cases in a single day with 45,667 new cases reported on Wednesday. Previously the highest number of new cases in a single day was recorded in April, though the number this time is over 9,000 cases higher.

Russia has reported 7,176 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the nationwide total number to 606,882 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country remains the third most infected in the world one day ahead of the constitutional referendum.

Germany's coronavirus reproduction rate has jumped to 2.88 on Sunday. The "R" number estimates how many people an infected person passes the virus to, and a value of less than one is needed to control the spread of the disease.

Numbers released by the Robert Koch Institute shown the average four-day reproduction rate jumped from 1.79 on Saturday, to 2.88. The 7-day 'R' value also increased from 1.55 on Saturday to 2.03 on Sunday.

According to the RKI, the increase was mainly due to local outbreaks in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where more than 1,300 workers at a meat-processing plant tested positive to Covid-19.

With the United States surpassing 117,000 Covid-19 related deaths at over 2 million confirmed cases, the country has now a higher death toll from the pandemic than due to World War One. During the first World War 116,516 Americans had been killed.

Brazil has passed the mark of 1 million Covid-19 cases and nears the 50,000 deaths mark. Currently, 48,954 deaths have been reported with 1,206 deaths on Friday alone. The country also has reported a record-breaking number of 54,771 new infected people on Friday.

In Canada’s two largest provinces by population, the number of new cases has been decreasing. Even in Quebec, where the number of coronavirus cases has exceeded the rest of the country combined, had only 120 new cases on Thursday, significantly below the average of 500-600 prior. There is no clear reason for this decrease.

The ministry of health has released a statement that two new Covid-19 cases have been imported from the United Kingdom. Dr Siouxsie Wiles from the University of Auckland who specializes in infectious diseases has stated that "That's why we all still need to be really conscious that if you have a sniffle or anything that we still go and get tested, just in case there has been some transmission from someone who's come into the country". The transmission follows after New Zealand had been 28 days without a new community transmission and 24 days since a new recorded case.

With a rising number of Covid-19 cases, India is running out of Intensive Care Units in Mumbai, which is most affected by the pandemic. The city reports the use of 99% of its ICU beds and 9% use of ventilators according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Out of the 1,181 ICU beds, only 14 are open for new patients.

Brazil's Health Ministry announced Thursday 909 new Covid-19 fatalities, bringing the death toll to 41,828. The South-American country has now the second-highest number of Covid-19 deaths, after the United States.

The number of infections rose to 828,810 after the report of 25,982 new confirmed cases on June 12.

Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's Africa regional director, said that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in all of Africa. The virus is spreading beyond major cities and into rural areas. Cases doubled in just 18 days to 200000. Moeti: "Even though these cases in Africa account for less than 3 percent of the global total, it's clear that the pandemic is accelerating."