COVID-19: Almost 200,000 cases and 8,000 deaths

COVID milestone

Today is a great milestone
Eight thousand deaths to bemoan
200K cases
The vile death toll races
A milestone or a millstone?

Alan Grace
18 March 2020

Sometime today we can expect to have reached 200,000 cases and 8,000 deaths in the world from COVID-19.

The current total around 8 am NZ time on 18 March is (daily increase in brackets):
196,464 (up 14,014) and 7,924 deaths (up 775)

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