PHOTO: President Trump now hopes the US can do 1 Million tests in a week [Source/Twitter]
The latest figures on the coronavirus global pandemic show a severe upsurge and turn of events for the United States of America at a time President Donald Trump is pushing states to reopen the economy.
To begin with, Iet us go through the number of confirmed coronavirus cases for the US and make a genuine comparison to the global data for a better understanding of why the trend should not only worry Americans.
As at 0630 hours (EAT) on Saturday, there were a total of 701,131 confirmed coronavirus cases in the US owing to the robust testing capabilities celebrated by President Trump as having not been done by anywhere else on Earth.
This means, 31.2 per cent of the world's 2,250,751 covid-19 cases are in the United States where a whooping 37,000 people have died from coronavirus.
The number of deaths reported from the pandemic globally is 154,261, with a majority (25 per cent) being recorded from various states under the watch of President Donald Trump.
To break this down further for you, it is important to note that 2 months ago on such a date; February 17, US had recorded only 15 cases of coronavirus and no persons had been confirmed to have died from the virus.
A month later, on March 17, the United States had 6,135 cases, a number that has spiked with vigor to 701,131 today.
Only 8.5 per cent (60,510) of the persons found to have contracted the virus in the USA have recovered. It is also important to note that 24% of the covid-19 patients that are in serious critical condition are in the US.
Below is a break down of what the trend has been like even as President Donald Trump prides in performing better than S. Korea where there are 2,484 active cases as opposed to the USA's 612,353 active coronavirus cases.
Reported US coronavirus cases:
6 weeks ago: 332 cases
5 weeks ago: 2,204 cases
4 weeks ago: 18,763 cases
3 weeks ago: 101,242 cases
2 weeks ago: 277,953 cases
1 week ago: 501,301 cases
Right now: 710,021 cases
PHOTO: A logarithimic scale showing coronavirus global numbers of confirmed cases and deaths [Source/www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/]
Reported US Coronavirus deaths:
Feb. 17: 0 deaths
Mar. 17: 111 deaths
Apr. 17: 37,158 deaths
President Trump, who a number of Americans have praised for having so far, sent USD80 million Americans economic relief payments to vulnerable groups including farmers hopes to start carrying out 1Million tests weekly.
Global figures on tests done on a population of a million people shows his administration has performed way poorer than he has been claiming.
WHO data shows that USA has carried out a total of 3,574,984 tests so far. This means, only 10,800 persons have been tested per every group of a million people in the USA.
Too many states including the United Arab Emirates(UAE), Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Rusia, Canada, Israel, Australia, Switzerland have done way much better than that.
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