The following are graphs of COViD-19 statistics from USA, Spain, Italy, France – the top 5, 6 or 7 countries by number of cases. This article will be updated approximately every 24 hours (initially at 17:55 GMT, but I’ve changed – on June 29th, to 23:55 GMT – to show just about an entire 24 hour picture). (Source – worldometers coronavirus)

October 30, 2020 17:15 GMT to November 30, 2020, 23:55 GMT

Is This Some New Virus?

We’ve kind of been aware of the possibility since 2015, when A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence was published in Nature.

Incubation Period (how long it takes for symptoms to appear)

Symptoms of COViD-19 may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 (estimated ranges vary from 2-10 days, 2-14 days, and 10-14 days, see details), during which the virus is contagious but the patient does not display any symptom (asymptomatic transmission).
See full details: COVID-19 Coronavirus Incubation Period

200,682 new cases in the past 24 hours.

2,266 deaths in the past 24 hours.

193,251 new cases and 2,244 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Only 168,767 new cases in the past 24 hours.

Over 1,561 deaths in the past 24 hours!

209,291 new cases and 2,006 new deaths in the past 24 hours!

188,452 new cases in the past 24 hours, and over 12 million cases!

183,054 new cases, 2,064 new deaths in the past 24 hours!

1,487 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

Over one quarter of a million deaths!

196,511 new cases in the past 24 hours, and over 11 million total cases.

164,570 new cases in the past 24 hours.

1,470 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

141,372 new cases, and 1,342 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

Over 130,062 new cases in the past 24 hours.

Over 50 million total cases worldwide.

There have been 135,077 new cases, 1,241 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

And we’re over 10 million total cases.

There have been 1,184 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

There have been 124,063 new cases, and 1,661 new deaths, in the past 24 hours.

There have been 106,654 new cases and 1,027 deaths in the past 24 hours.

(This is not an advertisement, but Walmart is still selling N95-equivalent face masks for about $100, shipped, with an apparent shipping time of about a week. While this won’t filter out all SARS-CoV-2 viruses [it will filter out some], it will filter out just about all the droplets the viruses are in, which is what you inhale. [Droplets from a cough range in size from 0.62 to 15.9 µm. Droplets from a sneeze or speech are generally a bit larger. But even a cheap N95 filter should filter out most particles larger than 0.3µm, which is half the size of the smallest droplets we’re concerned with.] And if you’re not paranoid about COViD-19, you’re being foolish, to say the least.)

If people look at you strangely when you go shopping wearing what looks like a World War 2 gas mask, and plastic or surgical gloves, either ignore it or you can say something like, “At least I’m taking whatever precautions I can.”