{"id":19875,"date":"2020-06-30T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/30\/covid-19-global-health-crisis-solutions-americas-india-africa"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:00:06","slug":"the-latest-figures-are-a-wake-up-call-the-global-covid-19-crisis-isnt-close-to-over-adam-tooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19875","title":{"rendered":"The latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn&#8217;t close to over | Adam Tooze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coordinated response to the crisis in the Americas, India and Africa must be led by countries that have suppressed the virus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It took more than three months for the world to record 1 million cases of Covid-19. The latest 1 million cases were clocked up in a week, taking the total to more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/28\/global-report-covid-19-cases-exceed-10m-as-anxieties-rise-over-us\">10 million<\/a>. On Sunday 28 June, the world recorded more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/coronavirus-china-seals-off-province-as-worldwide-cases-exceed-10-million-1.4291317\">190,000 new cases in a single day<\/a>, a new record.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t fixate on the precise numbers. We are testing more than ever so we find more cases. What matters is the big picture and it is drawn in stark relief: the crisis is not yet over. Far from it. Even as east Asia and Europe begin to experience recovery, the momentum of the disease at the global level is building. Nor is this the famous \u201csecond wave\u201d. This is still the first wave spreading out across the world\u2019s 7.8 billion inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/30\/covid-19-global-health-crisis-solutions-americas-india-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coordinated response to the crisis in the Americas, India and Africa must be led by countries that have suppressed the virusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt took more than three months for the world to record 1 million c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,41,50,1069,588,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-globalisation","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19876,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19875\/revisions\/19876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}