New data released by the World Health Organisation indicates that over 16 million people have now been confirmed to have contracted the deadly coronavirus disease. The death toll is also nearing 650,000. Out of this almost 10 million have recovered.

The current total number of confirmed cases is 16,207,130. The death toll is pegged at 648,513. The recovered cases is 9,916,266 leaving in a 5,642,351 active cases.

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The United States tops the global chart with almost a quarter of the global deaths and infections. This is followed by Brazil, India, Russia.

South Africa takes up the fifth position with 434,200 cases and 6,655 deaths, the largest on the African continent.

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The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has brought the global economy to a stagnation since it began spreading to other parts of the world in early February. This disease was first discovered in Wuhan, China.

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Top World Health Organization (WHO) experts are warning that the novel coronavirus could become endemic like HIV and the world will have to learn how to live with it.

Dr Mike Ryan, WHO emergencies expert said at a briefing on Wednesday that even if a vaccine is found, it will require ‘massive effort’ to control the virus, hence the need to quit predicting when the virus would disappear.

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He added that just as the world has come to terms with HIV, the world will have to do same with the novel coronavirus.

“It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,”

“HIV has not gone away – but we have come to terms with the virus,” Dr Ryan told the virtual press conference from Geneva.

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Meanwhile WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom, stressed that with collective effort, the virus can be controlled.

“The trajectory is in our hands, and it’s everybody’s business, and we should all contribute to stop this pandemic.”

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The death toll of the coronavirus pandemic has now surpassed the 250,000 mark with almost 3,700,000 recorded cases globally.

This comes amid efforts to relax the lockdown imposed on most countries as they race to contain the disease.

United States of America is the hardest hit country with 1,200,000 cases and almost 70,000 deaths.

This has led to condemnation of President Donald Trump who initially downplayed the pandemic.

China, the country the virus originated from has now taken measures to bring Wuhan back to normal after bringing the disease under control.

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