Coronavirus cases having surpassed  33 million  and almost 1 million deaths globally.
“The virus is already spreading quite rapidly is a big worry.   World Health Organization warned that there was a “very serious situation". 
The United States surpassed 7 million coronaviruses, according to John Hopkins University. 

India is now the second most corona-affected country, having  Corona cases, till September  more than 60 lakhs, which   it surpassed Brazil, Russia, Peru, and the UK.  While in   France, people already covered  more than 5 lakhs and in Germany,  it was near to 3 lakhs.

In Africa, the global humanitarian relief body says, It believes the true scale of the pandemic may be hidden because of lack of testing and issues with data. Ethiopia is  the fourth on the continent in cumulative cases after South 

Africa, Morocco, and Egypt.  WHO says changes in testing capacity and strategy can also affect numbers.

South Africa has the highest recorded number.

New infection control restrictions in Europe stirred anger and frustration around the world. Demonstrators in Madrid complained that new lockdowns to confront mounting case numbers were discriminatory. 

In London, thousands of anti-lockdown demonstrators were  broken up by police. Protesters in the Spanish capital hit the streets a day before a partial lockdown is extended. They complained that the 37 districts already affected are mainly low-income areas, with one brandishing a sign calling the policy not lock-down but segregation. In France, authorities trying to soothe the lockdown pain.

Local restrictions have been imposed in  

various parts of Europe to quell outbreaks of infection. 

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said rising coronavirus infection numbers in countries like France, Austria and the Netherlands were “worrying” He added that countries like Spain had infection dynamics “that are likely out of control.”

Deutsche Bank analysts said ,“Expect lots more restrictions over the days and weeks ahead, especially in Europe,”

As cases rise, however, more drastic measures are being considered, with the U.K. among those mulling whether to introduce a second, “mini” national lockdown to act as what has been described as a “circuit breaker” to stop the virus spreadingThe country’s government is also considering more restrictive measures such as a 10 p.m. curfew that would force cafes, bars and restaurants to close early. It comes as the U.K.’s chief medical officer and chief scientific 

advisor warned that if the current trend in rising  cases continued, doubling every seven days, and no action was taken, the country could expect to see almost 50,000 new cases per day in mid-October.

“All don’t want a further wide-scale lockdown but they also don’t want the virus to spread. It’s not going to be an easy way to solve both.
Economic hopes are fading.  It really is hard to understand what the strategies of governments are at the moment. 

The pandemic is expected to lead to the slowest growth in more than 50 years in East Asia and the  Pacific as well as China, while up to 38 million people are set to be pushed back into poverty, the world bank said in an economic update. Based on  past experience, the economic shock of the pandemic poverty could expand by 33million to 38 million people to see its first rise in 20 years, the World Bank said.