A third of the sailors of the French aircraft carrier are infected with Corona .. WHO announces an experiment for vaccines and European countries to ease quarantine restrictions

The World Health Organization has announced the introduction of three vaccines against the emerging corona virus, urging clinical trials, while several countries have resorted to alleviating the restrictions of quarantine, and France announced that more than a third of the sailors of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle are infected with the virus, amid the high number of victims in the world.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresos, revealed that three anti-Corona pandemic vaccines have entered the clinical trial phase, as well as others under development.

Gebresos expressed at a press conference in Geneva, regretted the decision of the US administration to suspend its contribution to the financing of the organization, pointing out that it is discussing with its partners how to compensate for the deficit resulting from the cessation of American funding.

He said the World Health Organization is not only fighting Covid-19 "but we are working to treat polio, measles, malaria, Ebola, HIV, tuberculosis, malnutrition, cancer, diabetes, mental health diseases and several other diseases."

Recreation at home
On Wednesday, Palestinian Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash said that Tarawih prayers will take place in the homes of Ramadan, due to the closure of mosques and the movement’s stopping in all walks of life, as part of measures to prevent the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.

In a statement, Al-Habbash pointed out that the decision came in implementation of the state of emergency announced by President Mahmoud Abbas, adding that the performance of Tarawih prayer at home comes in accordance with the provisions of Islamic Sharia.

Earlier Wednesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that it had recorded 3 cases of corona, taking the total to 291.

Country support for Gaza
And in Gaza, the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip distributed, Wednesday, assistance to Palestinians who are subject to compulsory quarantine in the Strip, which had previously announced 13 cases of HIV infection.

The Chairman of the Qatari Committee, Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi, said in a statement that the committee "in coordination with the Qatar Development Fund, continues to provide assistance to hundreds of citizens who are in quarantine centers in the governorates of the Gaza Strip."

Al-Emadi explained that the provision of this aid comes on the instructions of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and within the grant that the Emir directed to provide the residents of the sector with a value of $ 150 million over a period of 6 months, and includes providing assistance to the people of the sector to face the Corona outbreak.

Sanctions in Jordan
In Jordan, Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz issued a new defense order on Wednesday, inviting every Jordanian or foreigner to inform the authorities if he or she was infected with or infected with Covid-19 virus, under penalty of imprisonment of up to three years.

The Minister of State for Information Affairs, the government’s spokesperson, Amjad Al-Adayleh, attributed the issuance of this order to “information about the presence of people who concealed their HIV infection and transmitted the infection to others,” noting that “the relevant authorities have identified and seized them.”

At the same time, Al-Adayleh said on Wednesday that easing curfew measures in governorates that did not register new cases of Corona virus will begin on Sunday in the coastal city of Aqaba, in the far south of the Kingdom.

In many governorates of the Kingdom, especially the southern provinces of Aqaba, Tafila, Ma'an and Karak, no infections were recorded.

Loosen the stone
A number of European countries announced their quarantine relief, as students in Denmark began to return to schools a month after their closure, and Finland decided to lift the closure from the Helsinki region on Wednesday, while Germany is considering easing quarantine conditions, amid a European emphasis on adhering to a road map to ease Restrictions.

Young Danes are the first European pupils to return to class a month after school was closed in the context of restrictions imposed to contain the Covid-19 epidemic.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also announced, on Wednesday, a gradual easing of the embargo measures imposed on public life in the country, since March 22, due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.

She said at a press conference held in Berlin after meeting via video technology with the heads of states to discuss measures to combat Corona.

She noted that the imposed measures were extended until May 3, but that some shops will open their doors from April 20 this year.

She added that schools, the zoo, libraries and museums can open their doors as of May 4.

On Wednesday, the European Union revealed a conditional "road map" related to the gradual lifting of restrictions and measures taken to combat the Corona virus in member states.

This was stated by European Commission President Ursula von der Laine and European Union Council President Charles Michel at a joint press conference in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Von der Line explained that the measures taken in the countries of the European Union have contributed to reducing the number of HIV infections and enhancing the health system response to the epidemic, but they have caused economic consequences and financial costs as well.

The European official announced that the European Union accepted the "road map" related to lifting its countries the measures and restrictions taken to combat the virus, noting that this map does not mean the immediate lifting of restrictions and measures, but rather it constitutes a specific framework for member states, and it proposes lifting the restrictions gradually and following up their results continuously and accurately.

She stressed that the lifting of restrictions is linked to three preconditions, namely the existence of a significant decline in the spread of the Corona virus in countries, the possession of an adequate health system, and the ability to continuously follow up after the lifting of the restrictions.

In the United States, a senior health official said today, Wednesday, that governors of about 20 states, in which the impact of the Coronavirus epidemic has not had much effect, believe they may be ready to start the process of reopening their economies by the target date announced by President Donald Trump on May 1, Next.

French aircraft carrier
In France, tests showed that more than a third of the sailors of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle were carrying the Covid-19 virus since their early return to France on Sunday, after the discovery of patients with the epidemic on board, according to a temporary count published Wednesday by the Ministry of the Armed Forces.

"As of the evening of April 14, the tests for detecting the virus included 1,767 sailors from the Naval Air Force Group," the ministry said in a statement.

The vast majority of these tests were conducted for sailors from the aircraft carrier, and "668 tests were positive." Among them, "31 St. Ann Hospital of the Ministry of the Armed Forces in Toulon (South) was admitted and one was in intensive care."

This outcome is likely to rise, given that "the results of 30 percent of these examinations have not yet been issued," and that "the campaign for examinations has not been completed yet."

Italy
In Italy, the authorities announced the death toll from corona to 21,645, after 578 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.

The Director General of Civil Defense, Angelo Borelli, told a press conference on Wednesday that the number of injured people in the country rose to 165,155, after recording 2,667 new injuries.

He explained that the number of people recovering from the virus reached 38,92 people, after 962 people recovered.

The death toll from Covid-19 in France has risen to 17,167 since the outbreak of the new Corona virus began, including 10,643 in hospitals, according to an official census announced by the Director General of French Health Jerome Salomon.

The death toll in elderly care homes also rose to 6,524. Salomon said that the figures show an increase of 1438 cases from Tuesday's result due to "updating" the data numbers.

For the first time since the epidemic began, the number of Covid-19 patients has fallen in French hospitals, according to Salomon, who said that "the number of patients (injured) in hospitals is 513 less" compared to Tuesday's outcome thanks to "a large number of patients being discharged from hospitals."

The new Corona virus has caused more than 130,000 deaths in the world, more than two-thirds in Europe, according to a toll prepared by the French Press Agency, according to official sources this evening.

In the United States, the number of deaths reached 26,950 cases, followed by Italy with 21645 cases, Spain with 18579 cases, then France with 17,167 cases.

In total, the virus infected, as of Wednesday evening, more than two million and 51 thousand in the world, more than 507 thousand of whom have recovered, according to the site and the multimeter specializing in monitoring the victims of the virus.