The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide tops 20 million, with more than half the cases from the United States, India and Brazil.
Wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Martha Gonzalez Reyes, 76, sells roses outside Metro Hidalgo in central Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. After four months staying at home, Gonzalez returned to selling on August 1, but she says business hasn't fully rebounded. "People have less money to spend she says, and they don't want to go out and get infected."
It took six months or so to get to 10 million cases after the virus first appeared in central China late last year. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. About one-fifth of reported deaths, or more than 163,000, have been in the U.S., the highest in the world.In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and President Donald Trump, seldom wears a mask and has resisted calls for a strict lockdowns, saying Mexicans should be convinced to observe social distancing, not forced to do so by police or fines.
Mexico’s relatively high death rate results partly from the country having one of the world’s highest rates of obesity and diabetes. There has also been relatively little testing. Of all tests done, 47% are positive, suggesting that only seriously ill people are getting tests. That has hindered contract tracing.
That outbreak held steady Tuesday with 331 new cases and 19 more deaths in Victoria, which includes Melbourne, raising hopes a strict, renewed lockdown in Australia’s second-largest city was working. Border closures, masks, lockdowns and infection data are now the new way of life for much of the world, not the politically combustible factors they are in the U.S.at least 49 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired
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