Good morning, good afternoon and good evening.The world has now recorded more than 8 million cases of COVID-19. In the first two months, 85,000 cases were reported.
But in the past two months 6 million cases have been reported.There have been more than 435,000 deaths and in the Americas, Africa and South Asia; cases are still rapidly rising.
However, there are green shoots of hope, which show that together through global solidarity, humanity can overcome this pandemic.
We now have good examples of many countries that have shown how to effectively suppress the virus with a combination of testing, tracing, and quarantining patients and caring for those that get sick.