All around the globe, the novel pandemic well known for its name Coronavirus that has taken above 311,000 lives.
Thus far, above 4.6 million people of the whole world got infected by the Coronavirus, that disease came into existence due to the new respiratory virus, data calculated by the CSSE (Center for Systems Science & Engineering) at Johns Hopkins University. Moreover, the real figures are considered to be much higher because of the lack of testing kits, and thousands of unreported and suspicious cases are present that many governments are trying to hide the scope of their country’s pandemic.
Analysts are showing that the United States is one of the most affected region that contains above 1.4 million COVID-19 patients and around 88,754 deaths till now.
The past pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli, is in jail for his scam, and even he ramped up the prices of those drugs that are lifesaving.
Martin Shkreli wants to get released and said that his work in biopharmaceuticals would be beneficial for the public. He added that if he is permitted to do research on COVID-19, he could take a cure medicine to market. On the other side, the judge did not approve of his claim.
Kiyo A. Matsumoto, District Judge of United States for Eastern District of New York wrote that the court doesn’t find any of such releasing Mr. Martin Shkreli will cure the public, although, Shkreli is looking for leverage his experience with the pharmaceutical to develop for Coronavirus that he would purportedly offer at no cost.
Meat plants developed risk for COVID-19 in Texas
Greg Abbot, Gov. of Texas, declared additions to a taskforce to send Amarillo, Texas, where Greg Abbot declared that around seven hundred people have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. Besides this, these COVID-19 cases uncovered to many meat-packing factories in that area. Furthermore, Gov. of Texas announced that many meat plants are shut down.
COVID-19 in California, took 98 more lives
Ninety-eight more deaths are reported in California, and the state’s death toll reaches 3,204. Moreover, daily death tolls of California have plateaued more than the last few weeks as a total number of COVID-19 cases in that state has crossed 76,793, reported by the health department of the state.
Coronavirus testings have been increasing in California State and 1,179,126 tests directed and informed to the Department of Public Health of California. The health department said that this signifies a surge of 45,220 COVID-19 tests from the last 24 hours reporting session.