Global Covid-19 cases top 1.9 million as WHO calls it ‘10 times deadlier’ than H1N1 & warns against premature lockdown lifting

The Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has exceeded 1.9 million infections worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, amid a crisis that world health officials say is “10 times deadlier” than 2009’s swine flu outbreak.

The new milestone came on Monday evening with the latest update of the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, which put total infections globally at 1,918,855, with nearly 120,000 fatalities. As the disease and death tolls continue to soar, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that containment measures should not be relaxed prematurely, as the virus is still spreading rapidly.

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