The Global Covid-19 Pandemic Is Getting Worse

Family members of Vijay Raju, who died due to the coronavirus, mourn before his cremation at a crematorium ground in Giddenahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 13. REUTERS/Samuel Rajkumar  

Washington Post: The pandemic is getting worse, even when it seems like it’s getting better  

In the United States, life is returning to normal. Restaurants and bars are filling up again, vacations are being booked and flights are selling out. At sporting events, maskless fans are hugging and cheering. Memorial Day weekend, the country’s unofficial start to the summer, was celebrated with much more gusto and many more family barbecues than it was a year ago. 

That’s all for good reason: A majority of Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and daily new infections and deaths are at their lowest levels in almost a year. The pandemic is slowly receding from the daily lives of many Americans as businesses open up and local authorities ease restrictions. Britain, which on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus-related deaths for the first time since March 2020, can also see the sunlit uplands of a post-pandemic future.  

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WNU Editor: This pandemic is far from over. Even though the situation is improving in countries like the U.S., according to John Hopkins 642 Americans still died yesterday, over 4,000 in the past week. 

As for the rest of the world. The above Washington Post article provides a good summary on how this disease is still ravaging many parts of the world.

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