Sworn in as president during story collection victory. And president across party faces a drubbing but its a good night for the greens after local elections in france. It began as an unknown virus among a few dozen patients in china at the end of last year and now 6 months later the coronavirus pandemic has hit another tragic milestone more than half a 1000000 people are known to have died and the virus is still spreading across the planet more than 10000000. 00 people are now confirmed to have been infected thats a 900 percent increase in less than 3 months a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States which is by far the worst hit country with over 2 and a half 1000000 cases and the 125000 fatalities but the true toll is likely to be much higher a recent survey by the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention found many more americans are the antibodies for the virus suggesting the real case count maybe up to 10 times higher than reported atika hain has