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

1 min read Last Updated : Aug 11 2020 | 1:40 PM IST

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