World Grapples With ‘Once-In-100-Year' Virulence

COVID-19 has now infected more than 2,00,000 people in 164 nations; Australian PM warns crisis could last six months.

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Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were adjusting on Wednesday to once-in-a-generation measures to battle the COVID-19 pandemic that is not only killing the old and vulnerable but also threatening prolonged economic misery.

The disease that jumped from animals to humans in China has now infected more than 2,00,000 people and caused nearly 8,500 deaths in 164 nations, triggering emergency lockdowns and injections of cash unseen since Second World War.