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brooklynite

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Wed May 20, 2020, 07:20 PM May 2020

WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases

Source: CNN

Tedros Adhanom-Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, on Wednesday said that more cases had been reported to the agency in the last 24 hours than any time since the novel coronavirus outbreak began.

“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Tedros said at a briefing in Geneva. “In the last 24 hours, there have been 106,000 cases reported to WHO – the most in a single day since the outbreak began. Almost two-thirds of these cases were reported in just four countries.”

Those four countries, WHO infectious disease epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove confirmed to CNN in an email, are: the United States, Russia, Brazil and India.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-20-20-intl/h_3b0b61b7081463eda825a2c37c330584



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WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases (Original Post) brooklynite May 2020 OP
All I heard was the UNITED STATES, blah, blah, and blah! Shermann May 2020 #1
It's because of all that meddlesome testing Cirque du So-What May 2020 #2
Isn't that a "badge of honor"? sinkingfeeling May 2020 #3
Odd how that's likely the 3 worst leaders on the planet, only China compares. athenasatanjesus May 2020 #4
Such lists need to be drummed into consciousness everywhere empedocles May 2020 #7
FAKE NEWS! budkin May 2020 #5
USA.USA.USA.USA.USA!!!! bluecollar2 May 2020 #6
The 4 nations of Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro & Modi ... aggiesal May 2020 #8

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
4. Odd how that's likely the 3 worst leaders on the planet, only China compares.
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:35 PM
May 2020

And of course India's leader isn't that great either.

aggiesal

(8,864 posts)
8. The 4 nations of Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro & Modi ...
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:14 PM
May 2020

The top 4 RWNJ's in the world.

Shocked, Shocked to find that gambling's going on in here.

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