-- Now that more than one in every 80 people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, the global community was knit together like never before with the same memory of pain and hope for normalcy.
-- There were a lot of botched responses to the virus, a virus whose origin and cure are unknown, for instance, the erroneous idea of injecting disinfectant as possible treatment, controversy over the concept of herd immunity, and hijacking of other countries' medical materials.
-- In fortifying a defense line involving all humans, rich and poor, there is a role for China. Considered safe, effective, and easy to store, vaccines from Chinese producers have been approved in such countries as Brazil, Chile, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan and Serbia.
-- As of January, China has provided assistance for over 150 countries, sent medical teams to those in need, offered funding to relevant United Nations agencies including the WHO, and provided countries around the world with over 220 billion masks, 2.25 billion protective suits and over 1 billion testing kits.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 -- Global COVID-19 cases hurtled to 100 million on Tuesday, breaking yet another grim record, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Throughout a roller-coaster year featuring a pandemic, when waves of the virus and its faster-spreading variants are ravaging the world, however, human efforts to defeat the disease at times and in some places lagged or went wrong, like belated test results, public defiance of necessary restrictions and, more recently, unbalanced vaccine distribution.
In this life-or-death race of mankind versus virus, COVID-19 caught everyone off guard at first. However, anti-virus measures like lockdowns and calls for wearing a mask have gained increasing popularity, with the faster-than-ever work on vaccines expected to usher in an end to the pandemic.
Now that more than one in every 80 people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, the global community was knit together like never before with the same memory of pain and hope for normalcy. Humans have gone to great lengths to outrun the virus, and against all odds in the future, there is this overwhelming strength of a global community hand in hand.
