My friend and journalist Helen Pitt tweeted the positive news in the accompanying photo recently.
Here is today’s update:
212,018 people have now recovered from Covid-19.
To follow updates on Covid-19 stats, go to: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/
Marco, who works in construction, sent me what was close to an excellent resource on distinguishing the Covid-19 virus from the common cold.
“I don’t know how reliable it is,” he said.
It was good but slightly over-reached in some assertions. I won’t reprint it but instead will direct you to this excellent review of it on a UK fact-checking website.
This is an important piece of information and myth-buster at the same time.
This article from The Conversation https://theconversation.com/small-funerals-online-memorials-and-grieving-from-afar-the-coronavirus-is-changing-how-we-care-for-the-dead-134647 expands the points made by Amy Sagar and Carly Dalton in our earlier article ‘Adapting the funeral starts now.‘