The threshold of 200,000 deaths worldwide caused by the Covid-19 pandemic was crossed on Saturday evening, April 25. Almost 90% of these deaths were recorded in Europe and the United States.

With more than 53,000 deaths, the United States is the country with the most deaths, followed by Italy (26,384), Spain (22,902), France (22,614) and the United Kingdom (20,319).

The United States recorded, on Saturday evening, a daily balance sheet of 2,494 additional deaths, a count which starts rising again in the aftermath of the lowest figure in almost three weeks (1,258).

Half of humanity remains confined, even if scenarios of progressive deconfinement are emerging in France, Spain and other countries.

"No evidence" of immunization

The WHO, moreover, showered, Saturday, the hopes of those who bet on a possible immunity of the people who were confronted with Covid-19, at the time when some countries set up programs of serological tests for the deconfinement.

"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and who have antibodies are immune to a second infection," said the World Health Organization. And to urge us not to relax, because the threat of a second deadly wave still looms. 

The race is underway between laboratories to find the remedy for the coronavirus with half a dozen clinical trials, notably in the United Kingdom and Germany. 

Launched by the WHO, an initiative bringing together several European countries, the continent the most mourning with more than 122,000 deaths, out of more than 200,730 in the world, aims to accelerate the production of these treatments, tests and vaccines . But neither China, where the pandemic started at the end of 2019, nor the United States joined it.

With AFP

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