Solomon Islands Report First Cases, Here Are 11 Countries With Zero Corona Cases

KOMPAS.com – Solomon Islands confirmed the first case of infection was positive Covid-19 on Saturday (3/10/2020).

The positive patient is a male student who has just returned from the Philippines earlier this week.

This patient passed three previous tests conducted before departure in the Philippines, but was later confirmed positive on arrival in Solomon.

Launch Straits Times, Saturday (3/10/2020), this student showed no symptoms and was placed in isolation with two other close contacts.

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Activate health protocol

Prime Minister Sogavare said that with this new case, the steps that the government had prepared for the past eight months would also be activated.

However, Sogavare said there were no plans for a national lockdown at this time.

Prior to this case, 18 Solomon students had indeed been confirmed positive corona virus in the Philippines before boarding plane there.

On Saturday (3/10/2020), the Philippine Ministry of Health reported 2,674 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily increase in the last five days.

In addition, 62 new deaths were also reported.

Most countries in the world have reported cases of the corona virus Covid-19 that happened in its territory. An increasing number of cases are still happening every day.

Up to 11 countries

With the confirmation of the first positive case of Covid-19 in Solomon, the number of countries that have not reported cases of Covid-19 has decreased.

Of the 193 UN member states, there are still 11 countries in the world that have not confirmed the spread of Covid-19 infection in their territories.

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Here are the countries:

1. Kiribati
2. Marshall Islands
3. Micronesia
4. Nauru
5. North Korea
6. Palau
7. Samoa
8. Tonga
9. Turkmenistan
10. Tuvalu
11. vanuatu

Launch data from the page Worldometers, Sunday (4/10/2020) afternoon, the number of corona virus cases in the world was 35.1 million.

Of these, more than 1 million patients have died.

Meanwhile, more than 26 million people have been declared cured.

The number of active cases recorded in the world is 7.97 million with 7.9 million patients in mild condition and 66,096 patients in serious or critical condition.

The United States (US) still registered the highest number of cases, with 7.6 million cases, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and Colombia.

Meanwhile, from the number of cases of death, the most cases were also recorded by the US, with 214,277 cases, followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and the UK.

Then, from the number of patients recovered, the highest number of cures was in India with more than 5.5 million, followed by the US, Brazil, Russia, Colombia.

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