COVID-19: 7-year-old in US runs marathon at his backyard to raise money for organisations

Steven Burgess, a 7-year-old boy from North Carolina, decides to run 6 hours at his backyard to raise money for organisations fighting against COVID-19.

"It started out as something fun to do...Then, I saw he was serious about it, so I thought, 'Let's share this and uplift some people.' I have been blown away by the amount of people who want to donate," the boy's mother Eliza Burgess told media.

The boy who said that he wanted to raise money for the hospitals has managed to raise more than $1,500.

The US has seen thousands of people dying from this infection.

Meanwhile, the US President Donald Trump’s signature will appear on millions of COVID-19 relief cheques being sent to people who qualify for assistance to tide over the shutdown.

Trump’s accusation against the World Health Organization (WHO) that it is biased in favour of China and is responsible for misleading the world about novel coronavirus has triggered a furore about the global health body’s role in spreading the pandemic.

He tweeted: “The WHO really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?” In 18 hours, the tweet garnered 405K likes, 103K retweets and around 69K responses.

Tedros Adhanom, the first non-doctor (his doctorate is because of Ph.D.) Director-General of World Health Organization has been at the centre of public ire for urging countries not to close borders to foreigners from China on February 2. By then, China already had over 20,000 cases of the dreaded infection.

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