On March 27th, there are total of 500 thousand people infected Coronavirus in the world, 16,000 people have died of the COVID19, reported from John Hopkins University and the World Health Organization. Among them, U.S. reached at least 85,900 confirmed cases on Tuesday. The number of infections in the U.S. is rapidly increasing this week and even surpassing China and Italy.

The director of WHO, Ghebreyesus, also said that how many people would lose life depends on the decision we take. He called all countries should follow these rules to maintain the spread.

• • 1. First, expand, train and deploy your health care and public health workforce;
  • 2. Second, implement a system to find every suspected case at the community level;
  • 3. Third, ramp up the production, capacity, and availability of testing;
  • 4. Fourth, identify, adapt and equip facilities you will use to treat and isolate patients;
  • 5. Fifth, develop a clear plan and process to quarantine contacts;
  • 6. And sixth, refocus the whole of government on suppressing and controlling COVID-19.

Reference:

US surpasses China for highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the world

WHO reports 16,000 COVID-19 deaths worldwide, lists ‘key actions’ to control the pandemic