It's Friday, March 27, 2020, and Bojo has come down with COVID-19.

I'm Sean Ramesfirm, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

The United Kingdom's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive.

He says he has mild symptoms and will continue to lead the kingdom while in self-isolation.

In Italy, almost 1,000 people have died as a result of COVID-19 in a single day.

That's the highest daily death toll yet and brings Italy's national death toll close

to 10,000 higher than anywhere else in the world.

Only a few people have died at this point in South Africa, but there's been a surge in

confirmed cases there.

It's now the center of the pandemic on the African continent, with more than 1,000 cases.

The government ordered most of South Africa's 59 million people to stay at home for the

next three weeks.

It's the biggest stay-at-home order on the continent, but it's the United States that now has

the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world.

Almost 100,000 people here are known to be infected.

The actual number of confirmed cases again is surely much higher than that.

According to CNN, Michigan is seeing a huge surge in cases from something like 300 last

week to something like 3,000 confirmed cases this week.

Cities and states around the country are still struggling with critical shortages of medical

supplies and protective equipment for healthcare workers.

The president now appears to be pushing for American industry to make ventilators, at

least on Twitter.

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