Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called for a complete lockdown in the United States due to the rising cases of COVID-19. In a video interview with CNN, Bill Gates says that the US should shutdown the entire country for a short period of time to control the spread of the coronavirus and predicts that the number of cases will peak in late April. According to the recent reports, the US has now surged past China and Italy to become the epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak.
US has over 159,000 confirmed infections, which is more than any other country in the world. About half of these cases in the US have been recorded from New York, making the city the epicentre of the American outbreak. Earlier, a number of health experts pointed out the grave situation in the country as the number of cases continues to surge. One of the doctors of Indian origin says, post the death of a patient his body is directly loaded in the truck and taken directly to the burial ground. A first time for the doctors as well the physican reveals that there is a long line of coronavirus patients outside the hospital in New York. Globally, the total number of infections recorded has reached 775,000. While 160,000 people have recovered, nearly 37,000 have lost their lives.