Covid updates: 'World's first vaccine', India single-day cases below 55,000
The WHO's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave examples of New Zealand and Rwanda, as the countries had successfully stamped away the notorious virus
Kanishka Gupta New Delhi
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It has been almost 5 months since the World Health Organization declared coronavirus, a pandemic.
If we recapitulate, at the start of April, global cases were one million and by 22 May, the caseload topped the 5 million-mark.
By the end of June, the figure doubled to 10 million cases, and had doubled again to 20 million, in just seven weeks.
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First Published: Aug 11 2020 | 1:36 PM IST
