While the fight and struggle to overcome the global pandemic – covid-19 cases seem to retreat, and on the other hand, daily reported cases to increase drastically. On Friday, an additional 50, 000 new cases have been reported coupled with the already existing number of over 873, 200. This makes it reach a brim milestone of more than one million confirmed cases.

The highest daily death reports come from the US, where the US Health Commission records nearly 1,200 in a day. It’s unfortunate that as the contagion spread, the US has more than 6,000 death records.

Saudi Arabia extends the curfew policy to three additional areas. A senior official of the ministry of interior stated that the kingdom currently records 1,885 index cases and 21 death.

The Indians still banks on their strict policy of social distancing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the coronavirus disease has infected 1,860 citizens with 53 death cases. He also spelled out, how the pandemic has caused total hardship to their economy.

South Korea has reported 86 new covid-19 cases bringing the caseload to above 10, 000. The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said the major source of new cases came from the populated metropolitan area where the masses are linked with international arrivals. 22 cases were detected at the airport.

In a day Spain reported a 950 death toll with its overall toll to about 10, 000, while Singapore reported a coronavirus related death today; the death was an 86-year-old woman, a citizenry. This report was made today; 03 April raising the total death cases to 5 and a total of 1,049 indexes covid-19 cases.

According to the Covid-19 data from Johns Hopkins University, globally, more than 1,013,000 have been infected with Covid-19, as the overall death rate increases to over 53,000.

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