Coronavirus infection toll reaches 2MILLION worldwide with more than 120,000 dead
CORONAVIRUS cases topped 2 million worldwide Monday as the deadly bug killed over 120,000 people.
The pandemic has caused global devastation since it first emerged in and the US has rapidly become the in the world.
The US now has over 581,000 of the total cases and over 21,600 Americans have died from the deadly virus of April 13.
It has overtaken (170,000-plus cases); (159,000-plus cases); (137,000-plus cases); (130,000-plus cases), and the (89,000-plus cases) months after the killer bug was reported in Wuhan.
China now ranks seventh with some 83,000 cases versus the , which tops the list.
Disturbingly, scientists have confirmed the .
A medical examiner in Thailand picked up the deadly virus from an infected body in March, according the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine Study.
As the deadly bug batters at least 184 countries, New York soon became the US epicenter after the first infected patient was reported in state on January 20.
has repeatedly said he acted in a on American soil, touting his January 31 travel ban on China.
The escalating death-toll in urban and rural regions prompted state governors to implement emergency measures countrywide.
Trump said he has the total authority to dictate when these orders end, however.
But nine Democrat governors have since launched
Six northeastern governors from , , , , and launched one pact, while leaders from , and launched another.
While the Feds and state officials in the US consider how to reboot the flailing economy, hundreds of thousands of people returned to work in Spain Monday.
Around 300,000 non-essential workers went back to their jobs in Madrid as authorities relax the lockdown, reports.
Likewise, German officials are contemplating a return to normalcy.
Jens Spahn, the country’s health minister, told they were considering "going back to a new normal" on a step-by-step basis.
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Italy is still scrambling to deal with the rising body count as the death toll topped 20,000, however.
On Friday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirmed the government extended the Italian lockdown until May 3 despite mounting pressure from businesses and decreasing cases.
Back in the US, Trump emphasized the need to reopen the country Monday, saying he has to order states to lift their coronavirus lockdowns.
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