Global Trend of Covid-19: A Profile
Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal, Ph. D. Introduction The epidemic of coronavirus has already affected 210 countries and territories around the world. Unlike previous man-made wars or nature-made viruses Covid-19 has, for the first time, threatened entire population irrespective of region, sex, age or socio-economic condition of the of the world either to kill or down in quarantine or lock them down into the small periphery of their homes. The entire world is now reeling under the threat of this deadly virus, because g lobally as of 2:00am CEST, 25 April 2020, there have been 2,719,897 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 187,705 deaths. 1 At present global population is 7.79 billion. 2 Out of this world population, sixty-one per cent lives in Asia (4.7 billion), 17 per cent in Africa (1.3 billion), 10 per cent in Europe (750 million), 8 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean (650 million), and the remaining 5 per cent in Northern America (370 million) and Oceani...