Doctor Sanjay Gupta recalls for CNN what one year of pandemic has been for the world, Gto News presents part of his message written for CNN. Healt
Doctor Sanjay Gupta recalls for CNN what one year of pandemic has been for the world, Gto News presents part of his message written for CNN.
It’s been one full year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
A year of previously unimaginable suffering. Covid-19 has so far killed more than 2.6 million people across the world.
At least 118 million -and most likely many, many more- have been infected across all continents. It’s been a year of heartbreak and sacrifice. With more than 529,000 Americans dead, the United States has been by far the worst-affected country in terms of total reported deaths.
Five other countries -Brazil, Mexico (190,000 +), India, the United Kingdom and Italy- have reported more than 100,000 fatalities, writes Doctor Sanjay Gupta for CNN.
Children without school
Families have been torn apart and lives put on hold. Nearly 1.6 billion children worldwide have had their education disrupted because of the pandemic, according to UNICEF.
For more than 168 million of them, schools have now been completely shut for almost an entire year. But it has also been a period of scientific achievement.
Vaccines in record time
Within a year of the pandemic being declared, the world now has several vaccines proven to be very effective against the virus, some using a technology that has never been used before.
With inoculation programs rolling out across the world, many are hoping for a return to something resembling normality, maybe as early as this summer. But the brutal reality is that nobody is safe until everybody is safe.
Stop the virus everywhere
The pandemic won’t end unless the virus is stopped everywhere, said Gupta for CNN in a report.
“If there’s one thing the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us in the past year, it’s that we are one humanity, and that the only way to confront shared threats is by working together to find shared solutions”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today.
Vaccinations everywhere
“The most effective and strategic way to suppress transmission and save lives globally from Covid-19 is by vaccinating the most vulnerable people in all countries, rather than all people in some countries”, he added as reported by CNN.
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