• January 04, 2020
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245 Days since outbreak on 12 December 2019

The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be more persistent and widespread than other recent virus outbreaks. Open and transparent information sharing will be an important tool to help organisations and individuals to make critical decisions to fight and overcome this crisis.

We are publishing the latest news and statistics on efforts globally to help this important process along.

Here are the latest figures as of 12/08/2020

As cases of COVID-19 reach new heights with global count exceeding 700,000, various countries have declared historic measures to fight the economic impact of the pandemic

• The United States has signed into law a $2.2 trillion relief bill, surpassing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and making it the biggest economic package in US history
• The African Development Bank has raised a record-breaking $3 billion “Fight COVID-19” social bond to aid its regional member countries
• In Asia, countries such as Singapore and Malaysia have recently announced additional rounds of stimulus packages worth $33 billion and $58 billion respectively