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Answer: The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica.
We have now reached the tragic milestone of one million deaths, and the human family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss.
“The climbing death toll is staggering, and we must work together to slow the spread of this virus.” - UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.
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Note: This article was updated on April 21, 2020
The United States has just reached an unwanted milestone in the coronavirus pandemic: it now has more than 40,000 confirmed deaths from covid-19, far in excess of any other country. Although more people have died from the disease in other countries earlier in the outbreak—first China, then Italy were considered the centers of the disease—the world’s third-largest country is hosting by far the world’s largest outbreak.
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There are continuing arguments about how accurate these numbers are, not least because different testing regimes across the world mean that the number of undetected cases varies wildly from nation to nation. But the reality is that case numbers in the US could be far higher than reported, too: on March 6 Vice President Mike Pence announced that 3 million tests would be available “by next week“; the Atlantic’s Covid tracking project so far estimates that it took until April 14 for that many tests to actually be administered.