President Joe Biden said in a 60 Minutes interview Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is a thing of the past:
A person in the stands wears a mask before Dr. Anthony Fauci threw out the first pitch, at a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Seattle. Fauci is President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The pandemic is over," he said."We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.
The National Institutes of Health defines a pandemic as"an epidemic of disease, or other health condition, that occurs over a widespread area and usually affects a sizable part of the population."Globally, there have been about 612 million cases of coronavirus. The number of new daily cases peaked in January for many countries, including the U.S. , France and India , according to Our World in Data, an international organization of scientists.
We've come a long way since then – on Saturday, there were about 493,000 cases worldwide – but there are still thousands of cases being detected every day, and many estimates could be off, as many cases are going unreported. From Aug. 16 to Sept. 17, there were 19.4 million new cases worldwide, with some of the most significant increases happening in Japan , Taiwan and Hong Kong . The U.S. had a 3% increase in cases during that time period, equivalent to 2.5 million incidents.
In Japan, there is a daily cap on the number of people who can arrive in the country and individual tourist visits have been banned, though those guidelines are expected to be reversed soon. Additionally, on Sep.
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