The states are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. Globally, 7.1 million cases have been detected, with more than 408,000 deaths and 3.3 million people now recovered. Ian Bolliger, one of the Berkeley researchers, acknowledged the difficulty in obtaining reliable numbers for coronavirus infections given the haphazard pattern of testing. The study said that emergency COVID-19 policies prevented or delayed roughly 530 million total coronavirus infections across all six countries. The overwhelming majority of people remain susceptible to the virus, said Samir Bhatt, senior author of the Imperial study.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 10, 2020 09:22 UTC