World coronavirus dispatch: An opportunity to pitch surveillance tools?

From countries debating easing lockdown, to companies pitching surveillance tools to tackle Covid-19, to the hard hit events industry

Nations have started charting paths to ease lockdown measures imposed since January. With new confirmed infections and Covid-19 related deaths slowing in many countries, governments are coming under pressure to reopen schools and businesses, and relax movement restrictions.

Compare policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic:

Track the developments using Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index by FT, a composite score developed by researchers at Oxford University 

Let’s look at global statistics:

Total Confirmed Cases: 3,359,055

Change Over Yesterday: 84,308

Total Deaths: 239,090

Total Recovered: 1,060,848 

Nations hit with most cases: US (1,169,774), Spain (245,567), Italy (209,328), UK (182,260) and France (168,396)