Oklahoma State announced that six members of US President Donald Trump's campaign were infected with the Corona virus and quarantined, while the number of infections on the European continent exceeded the barrier of two million and 500 thousand, while India and Brazil recorded a record jump in the number of infections.
Six members of the team proved positive from among the hundreds of tests that were conducted and were immediately quarantined, adding campaign manager Tim Morto, adding that no injured or mixed person would be allowed to participate in an election rally today.
Stopping the trial of a drug promoted by Trump
in a related context, the US National Institutes of Health announced the discontinuation of a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of malaria hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of patients with the emerging "Corvid 19" virus in hospitals.
President Trump promoted this drug as a possible treatment for Covid-19, saying in March that it was "a real opportunity to make a major change in the history of medicine" if it was used with the antibiotic azithromycin.
The US National Institutes of Health added in a statement, according to Reuters, that the study found that hydroxy chloroquine, which President Donald Trump has long prescribed as a possible treatment, did not provide any benefit to patients even though it did not harm them.
A few days ago, the World Health Organization said it had stopped the testing of hydroxychloroquine, as part of its major experiment in a number of countries, on Covid-19 مرض patients, after new data and studies showed that it was not working.
Two million and 500 thousand infections in Europe
and Europe remains the continent most affected by the epidemic of Covid-19 with the registration of two million and 505 thousand and 650 injuries at least and 192 thousand and 416 deaths, although the disease is progressing at an accelerating pace in Latin America.
More than half of the injuries were reported in Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse.
In Brazil, the number of infections exceeded the threshold of a million, which indicates that the epidemic is out of control in the largest country in Latin America, and after 54,771 new infections were recorded in a single day, the number of infections in Brazil reached one million, 32,913, and the death toll approached 50 alpha.
In Mexico, which exceeded 20 thousand deaths, the authorities in Mexico City delayed for a week the resumption of economic activities, after it was scheduled for Monday.
Ending isolation in France
Within the framework of the measures to ease the restrictions imposed to combat the epidemic, the French authorities announced the acceleration of the process for the summer with the return of all children to schools, and the resumption of team sports starting on Monday.
The stadiums will be reopened to the public on July 11, the date which marks the end of the health emergency in France, and cinemas and holiday centers will be reopened, while respecting strict health regulations.
A comprehensive curfew in Iraq
Three Iraqi provinces announced today, a comprehensive curfew in order to confront the Corona virus, following an increase in infections.
Hours after the implementation of the governorate of Dhi Qar (south), a comprehensive curfew for an indefinite period, the governorates of Babylon (center) and Diwaniyah (south) announced a similar ban for a week.
The crisis cell for anti-Corona in the Babil Governorate said in a statement that it was decided to impose a comprehensive curfew in Babylon for a week to prevent corona.
Global statistics
The number of people infected with the virus since its emergence in the Chinese city of Wuhan late December last year, has now reached more than 8 million and 600 thousand people worldwide, of whom more than 459 thousand died, according to a Reuters statistic.
And injuries were recorded in more than 210 countries and regions, led by the United States with more than two million and 200 thousand injuries and more than 121 thousand deaths, then Brazil with more than a million injuries and more than 48 thousand deaths.
India today recorded a record jump in the number of infections with the Corona virus, to become the fourth largest country in terms of infection in the world after each of the United States, Brazil and Russia.
Russia ranks third in the world in terms of the number of injuries with more than 776 thousand and more than 8 thousand deaths, then India with more than 395 thousand confirmed cases and more than 12 thousand deaths.