Two experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Beijing yesterday, on an exploratory mission, before the start of an investigation that this international body wants to conduct on the source of the emerging corona virus in China by the end of 2019, while the total number of new cases of coronavirus around the world reached 12 million and 500 thousand And 489 cases, the number of deaths in Brazil exceeded 70 thousand, while the United States recorded more than 63 thousand new cases of "corona", within 24 hours.
In detail, the experts' visit to China comes: an epidemiologist and animal health specialist, while the World Health Organization launched a call for caution in the face of a large increase in the number of infections in the world recently.
When announcing, the day before yesterday, that the two experts were going to China, the organization's spokesperson, Margaret Harris, said that they would hold talks with Chinese officials, and specify the places that the next investigation mission should visit.
"One of the big questions," said Harris, is to determine whether the virus was transmitted to humans from an animal, and if so - then which animal?
"The number of infections in the world has more than doubled in the past six weeks," Tidros Adhanum Ghebrysos, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said yesterday. After talking about this worrying situation, he stressed the need to intervene quickly, when epidemic hotspots appear.
"Only a bold move, accompanied by national unity and global solidarity, can turn the tide," he said.
The United States welcomed, yesterday, the announcement of the organization's investigation in China. "We consider this scientific investigation an essential stage, to obtain a full and transparent understanding of the way this virus has spread throughout the world," said Andrew Bremberg, the US ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
The total number of new cases of coronavirus around the world reached 12 million, 500, 489 yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg News Agency.
The data showed that the disease «Covid-19», caused by infection with the virus, has claimed the lives of 560 thousand and 226 people, worldwide so far.
The "Covid-19" epidemic continued to spread in Latin America, where leaders of several countries have contracted the virus.
In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro himself declared that he was HIV positive.
Brazil is the country worst hit by the epidemic in Latin America, and the second in the world. The number of deaths exceeded the threshold of 70 thousand, after recording 1214 additional deaths in the previous 24 hours. This brings the number of injuries to 1.8 million.
And the United States recorded, on Friday evening, 63643 new cases of the new corona virus, within 24 hours, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University, which is a reference in tracking injuries and deaths caused by «Covid-19».
Johns Hopkins data showed that the total number of people infected with "Covid-19" in the country most affected by the epidemic rose to 3.18 million people, of whom 133,969 people have died, including 774 who died in the past 24 hours.
Bogota, the main epicenter of the epidemic in Colombia, has raised the level of preparedness against the spread of the virus, and will further isolate the population. In Colombia, it recorded 133,973 injuries, including 4,717 deaths.
In Australia, the stone was imposed, again, for six weeks on Melbourne's five million people.
New outposts have appeared in Europe, the continent with the highest number of deaths, amounting to 200,000 (out of 2.8 million injuries), but it appears that it is currently controlling the situation.
In France, the number of deaths from the virus has exceeded 30,000, after recording 25 new deaths, since Thursday, but the number of those treated in intensive care is declining.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus emerging in Britain reached 289,678, yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.
The data indicated that the number of deaths in Britain as a result of infection with the virus reached 44,735.
In Spain, the number of confirmed cases of the new Corona virus reached 253 thousand and 908 cases yesterday, according to data that indicated that the deaths, as a result of infection with the virus, increased by two cases over the previous day, to reach 28 thousand and 403 cases. And Hong Kong announced yesterday that it had recorded 20 new cases of the emerging coronavirus, according to a report by the South China Morning Post, quoting a medical source.
The newspaper pointed out that the number of people who had been infected, locally, had not yet been identified.