Covid-19 Now

One year ago on 11 March 2020, WHO declared Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. Back then, total number of cases was 120,000 in 114 countries. Now the total number of cases is 118,190,663 (118.1 million). It is about 1,000 times from a year ago. (Source: Worldometer)

The good news is that the total daily cases peaked at 745,318 on 11 January 2021 (7-day moving average). It is coming down and it was 404,474 on 9 March 2021. (See graph) Vaccination roll-out is the other good piece of news.

Science is telling us that Covid-19 can be contained if we wear face masks and reduce social contacts (social distancing) as much as possible.

For more than a year now, we lived through despairs and it has disrupted our lives that we have not encountered before for most of us. My parents lived through war like the Japanese Occupation. War was many times worse than what we are facing now. There is hope that we will be able to ride through this pandemic with science/medicine as our guiding lights.

We have this collective experience of lives during Covid-19. Let’s hope for a better year ahead in 2021. We are responsible to ourselves and to others around us. Keep it up!