Corona-chan's Unflattened Curves Keep Growing

Pandemic:Declared
Containment: Failed
Lockdown: Initiated
Economy: Crashed
Vaccine: In Development
Nothingburgers: out of stock
Clown World: Infected
Previous thread: https://dis.tinychan.org/read/lounge/1579944411
Current stats: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
In map form: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
List of strains: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

In a breakthrough study, a team of scientists have identified an anti-malarial drug, mefloquine (a derivative of hydrochloroquine), that is effective against SARS-CoV-2. It could reduce the overall viral load in affected patients to under 7% and shorten the 'time-till-virus-elimination' by 6.1 days.
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20210701_1400.html