Countries and regions around the world have reimposed restrictions to face the jumps in the numbers of new Corona virus (COFED-19), and US Johns Hopkins University data showed that the number of HIV infections around the world exceeded 13.1 million cases until yesterday, and also showed that the number of people recovered exceeded 7.2 million, while the number of deaths exceeded 573 thousand cases.
And the Colombian authorities have reimposed strict quarantine measures on about 3.5 million people to reduce the worrying increase in the number of people infected with "Covid-19", and this strict quarantine includes 2.5 million of the capital's Bogota eight million people.
The total number of people infected with the virus in Colombia reached 154 thousand people, about a third of them in the capital, while the number of deaths exceeded 5,400 deaths.
In the Bogota neighborhoods covered by stone measures, the police increased their surveillance, while the army deployed 400 of its members at the entrances and exits of the neighborhoods to control movement to and from them. Under the applicable quarantine measures, residents are allowed to leave their homes to buy food, go to the pharmacy, or to an urgent medical appointment.
In Asia, where the virus appeared in central China for the first time at the end of last year, many parts of the continent find justifications to stop the reopening of their economies after some were praised for dealing with the outbreak when it first appeared.
In the city of Bangalore, the technological capital of India, a new week of closure began yesterday, after an increase in cases following the relaxation of restrictions. Cases increased from about 1,000 on June 19, when the city believed that it had survived the worst fate thanks to tracking the injured and those who had contact with them, to about 20 thousand cases.
The Philippines recorded the largest daily increase in deaths due to the Corona virus in Southeast Asia this week, and the authorities will return to close a part of the capital, Manila, inhabited by about 250 thousand people. The government said it was unlikely to ease restrictions on other parts of the capital.
In Hong Kong, which saw few cases during the first wave of the pandemic, the authorities imposed strict social divergence measures from midnight before last, in the most firm measures there yet.
The health authorities said that Hong Kong recorded 52 infections the day before yesterday, including 41 where the infection was transmitted locally. Since the end of January, Hong Kong has recorded 1,522 injuries and eight deaths.
The Hong Kong government stated that the emergence of unknown local cases recently, indicating continued transmission of infection within the community without anyone knowing. The Walt Disney Company said it will temporarily shut down the Disneyland Game Park starting today.
In Japan, health officials are trying to locate more than 800 people who attended a theatrical performance, after 20 people were confirmed to be infected with the virus, including members of the squad.
In Australia, the country largely avoided the large number of injuries and deaths that occurred in other countries by following swift and firm measures, but an increase in local transmission of infection in Victoria and an increase in new cases in NSW worried the authorities.
South Australia canceled plans to reopen its borders with New South Wales next week, while Queensland imposed a two-week mandatory quarantine on people who visited two areas in the western suburbs of Sydney.
In New South Wales, which has seen dozens of cases linked to the outbreak in Victoria, authorities have decided that the maximum capacity of bars will be 300 people as a precaution after an outbreak concentrated in a major hotel in southwest Sydney.
"Activities inside enclosed spaces in which people do not sit in seats pose a major health risk," state prime minister Gladys Perigclean told reporters. This increases the chance of transmission. ”Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, is experiencing its second week of six-week closure.
In the United States of America, the state of California announced its return to the state of closure significantly again amid an alarming rise in cases of coronavirus infection, and the Governor of the State, Gavin Newsome, issued orders to close bars and stop the activities of restaurants, zoos, cinemas and museums in closed places.
Newsom said that measures would be implemented throughout the most populous state in the country, having previously authorized the closure of these activities in some of the severely affected provinces.