Pumasok ang ikalawang quarter ng 2021 sa Pilipinas na may record na bilang ng mga kaso ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Higit 864,000 na sa kasalukuyan, tinatayang aabot sa isang milyon ang bilang ng local coronavirus infection sa buong bansa sa pagtatapos ng buwan sa pagtataya ng isang research group.
The Philippines welcomed the second quarter of 2021 with record-high numbers of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Currently at over 864,000, a research group has predicted that the nationwide count for local coronavirus infections will reach one million by the end of the month.
The statement is not an admission that COVID-19 does not exist, nor that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, was not scientifically isolated.
In late 2002, a then-undescribed virus crossed the species barrier in southern China and found a welcoming home in the lungs of humans. Over the next eight or so months, it spread, at first quietly across the region, and then explosively across the globe. The disease, what we have come to know as SARS or the severe acute respiratory syndrome, would infect more than 8,000 people and kill hundreds.
