The death toll of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) in the world has risen to at least 70,000, about 75% of which is in Europe, according to an AFP count, based on official sources, while infections in Spain and Germany have declined, after they witnessed an outbreak of the virus during the last period .
The total number of recorded deaths reached 70 thousand and 9 deaths, including 50 thousand and 215 deaths in Europe, the continent most affected by the virus. Italy recorded the largest number of deaths, which amounted to 15877, followed by Spain 13055, then the United States 9,648, and France 8,078.
Since the first outbreak of the epidemic in China in December, 127,785 cases of the virus have been recorded, more than half of them in Europe by 67,642 cases, 353,159 in the United States and Canada, and 11,955 in Asia.
In Spain, the authorities announced, yesterday, that deaths from the Coruna virus had decreased for the fourth consecutive day, with 637 deaths recorded within 24 hours.
In Italy, the director of the National Institute of Health, Silvio Prozaviero, said that “the curve has started to decline.” The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, stressed that the country is aware that it still has a few difficult months ahead. The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, for his part, said, Facing the virus "must continue."
In Germany, data from the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases stated that the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany reached 3677 during the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 95,391 cases yesterday, in the fourth consecutive decline in the daily rate of infection with new cases, while it reached Total deaths: 1,434 cases.
And German Chancellor Angela Merkel considered that the crisis of the newly created Corona virus constitutes the biggest test for the European Union since its establishment, confirming to reporters, before a conference of eurozone finance ministers, that Europe should achieve "self-sufficiency" in the production of protective masks, adding: "This matter is One of the lessons we learned from this pandemic. ”
In the United States, where the death toll is approaching 10,000, the outbreak continues to be a cause of great concern, and US President Donald Trump said yesterday evening: “In the coming days, America will endure the height of this terrible epidemic, our fighters in the battle of life or death.” These are amazing doctors, nurses and health workers, who are on the front lines, ”he said, believing that the next two weeks will be very difficult.
In New York State, the epicenter of the first epidemic in the United States, the state's governor, Andrew Como, announced that the health system is under great pressure, because medical devices and health workers are not available in sufficient numbers.
In Tokyo, which did not take strict isolation measures during the last period, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced yesterday that his government is preparing to declare a state of emergency, starting today in several regions of the country where the rate of HIV infections has increased, including Tokyo and Osaka.
Yesterday, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced that the number of deaths due to Corona virus in the country increased to 3739 cases, after 136 new deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours, and the ministry said that the total number of infections rose to 60 thousand and 500 cases, after recording 2274 cases A new injury, and she clarified that the number of people recovering rose to 24,236 cases. Yesterday, the Russian health authorities announced the registration of 954 new cases of Corona virus during the past 24 hours, the highest number of cases, recorded in one day in the country since the outbreak of the epidemic.
Russia records the highest daily number of corona infections with 954 new cases.