The G20 is meeting by default because of the pandemic

1,000,000 Corona deaths around the world ... and warnings of a doubling of the toll

A mass grave for Corona victims in Brazil.

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The new Corona virus (Covid-19) epidemic, since its appearance last December until yesterday, has killed more than a million people, according to a toll published by Agence France-Presse yesterday, according to official sources, amid warnings of a doubling of the toll, while the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced The summit of the leaders of the G20 countries will be held virtually due to the Corona pandemic.

"A million deaths are a terrible number," said the director of the World Health Organization's emergency program, Michael Ryan, warning that "it is very likely" that the toll will double.

Statistics, published by "France Press" yesterday, showed that the new Corona virus has caused the death of at least one million and 2036 people in the world, and more than 32.9 million people have been officially infected since the beginning of the epidemic, including at least 22.5 million who recovered until yesterday.

The United States recorded about 205 thousand deaths, Brazil 142 thousand deaths, India 100 thousand deaths, and Mexico 76 thousand deaths.

The number of deaths in these countries accounts for more than half of the death toll in the world.

The outlook is bleak with the number of infections rising again in Europe and Asia, which reinforces fears of a second wave.

Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed that she is very concerned about the sharp increase in the number of Coronavirus infections in Germany, calling on the population to adhere to strict health measures.

And Merkel warned, during a meeting with senior officials in her party, that the number of new infections, which currently reach about 2000 per day, may become 19,200 per day by Christmas, if the trend continues "in this way."

During the past 24 hours, Russia recorded a significant and record increase in the number of new infections with the emerging coronavirus, above the level of 8,000, the highest number in three months.

The Russian Operations Center for combating the virus confirmed in its daily report that 8,135 new cases of the virus were recorded, bringing the total number of infections in Russia to one million and 159 thousand and 573 infections since the beginning of the pandemic, against a decrease in the number of deaths, after 61 deaths were recorded compared to 99 deaths per day. Previous, the death toll from the virus reached 20,385, with 2702 patients recovering during the past day, bringing the total of those recovering to 945,920 people.

The director of the Russian "Gamalia" Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research, Alexander Gintsburg, one of the innovators of the "Sputnik V" vaccine, the first vaccine against the coronavirus officially registered in the world, announced that Russian vaccines against "Corona" can gain immunity for two years and more.

It is noteworthy that five vaccines (three developed in the West and two from China) have so far entered the third phase of testing.

The potential Russian vaccine "Sputnik V" released encouraging preliminary results, but research is still unable at the present time to keep pace with the speed of the virus outbreak.

On the other hand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that the summit of the leaders of the G20 countries for the year 2020 will be held virtually on its scheduled date on the 21st and 22nd of next November, chaired by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

The summit - which is held under the slogan “Seizing the opportunities of the twenty-first century for all” - is held in light of the global conditions related to the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic, as it will build on what has been done during and after the virtual extraordinary summit of the group's leaders last March, and the outputs Working group meetings and ministerial meetings of the group that exceeded 100 meetings.

During the upcoming summit, the G20 countries will focus on protecting lives and restoring growth by dealing with and overcoming the pandemic, recovering better by addressing vulnerabilities that were evident during the pandemic, and enhancing long-term resilience.

The summit will also seek to strengthen international efforts to seize the opportunities of the 21st century for all by empowering individuals, protecting the planet, and harnessing innovations to shape new horizons.

The G20 countries led international efforts, resulting in more than $ 21 billion in commitments, aimed at supporting the production, distribution and availability of diagnostic and treatment tools and vaccines, and pumped more than $ 11 trillion to protect the global economy, and provided more than $ 14 billion to ease the burden. Debt in less developed countries.

A Russian official: The Sputnik V vaccine gives immunity for two years and more.

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