World Health Organisation head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the Covid-19 pandemic is subsiding in Europe, but getting worse globally with the number of infections expected to reach 10 million next week and the number of deaths 5,00,000. Speaking via video-conference with members of the European Parliament’s health committee, Tedros said that once the pandemic was over, the world should not return to its previous state, but build a “new normal” that would be fairer, greener and help prevent climate change. The US, meanwhile, on Thursday set one-day record for Covid-19 cases. Cases rose across the United States by at least 39,818 on Thursday, the largest one-day increase of the pandemic. More than 36,000 new U.S. cases were recorded on Wednesday, a few hundred shy of the record 36,426 on April 24. Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said. People who have COVID-19 but show no symptoms are capable of spreading the disease, health experts say. Twenty million infections would mean about 6 per cent of the US’ 331 million people have been infected, leaving a majority of the population still susceptible to the virus. The estimate is based on CDC studies of blood samples collected nationwide. Many infections were not caught in early testing, when supplies were limited and federal officials prioritized testing for those with symptoms. Administration officials are pointing to the new data to allay public anxieties, claiming that while there have been significant spikes, they have the outbreaks well in hand. President Donald Trump, who refuses to wear a face mask in public, has been playing down the virus threat, insisting recently that "it's fading away, it's going to fade away.”

World Health Organisation head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the Covid-19 pandemic is subsiding in Europe, but getting worse globally with the number of infections expected to reach 10 million next week and the number of deaths 5,00,000. Speaking via video-conference with members of the European Parliament’s health committee, Tedros said that once the pandemic was over, the world should not return to its previous state, but build a “new normal” that would be fairer, greener and help prevent climate change. The US, meanwhile, on Thursday set one-day record for Covid-19 cases. Cases rose across the United States by at least 39,818 on Thursday, the largest one-day increase of the pandemic. More than 36,000 new U.S. cases were recorded on Wednesday, a few hundred shy of the record 36,426 on April 24. Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said. People who have COVID-19 but show no symptoms are capable of spreading the disease, health experts say. Twenty million infections would mean about 6 per cent of the US’ 331 million people have been infected, leaving a majority of the population still susceptible to the virus. The estimate is based on CDC studies of blood samples collected nationwide. Many infections were not caught in early testing, when supplies were limited and federal officials prioritized testing for those with symptoms. Administration officials are pointing to the new data to allay public anxieties, claiming that while there have been significant spikes, they have the outbreaks well in hand. President Donald Trump, who refuses to wear a face mask in public, has been playing down the virus threat, insisting recently that "it's fading away, it's going to fade away.”