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On Thursday (March 5), confirmed global cases of COVID-19 have topped 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The milestone coincided with a number of developments in the response to the outbreak, including an emergency spending bill and the closure of a major university in the US and new, preliminary findings on the pathology of the virus.
“This is not a drill,” Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated at a briefing on Thursday. “This is not a time for excuses. This is a time for pulling out all the stops.”
“This epidemic can be pushed back, but only with a collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of government,” Tedros continued. “We are calling on every country to act with speed, scale and clear-minded determination.”
Emergency Spending Bill
Today (March 6), President Donald Trump ...
