Yesterday, the United States and China blocked a French-Tunisian draft resolution in the UN Security Council calling for "enhancing coordination" in the face of the new Corona epidemic (Covid 19). While the data gathered for the number of corona virus victims around the world showed that the number of infection with it increased to 3.2 million, the World Health Organization announced that Europe is still in the grip of the epidemic, and the announcement coincided with the organization’s emergency committee holding a meeting to discuss the Covid-19 epidemic.
In detail, yesterday, Washington and Beijing obstructed a French-Tunisian draft resolution in the Security Council calling for "enhanced coordination" in the face of the Corona epidemic. One diplomat, who declined to be identified, summed up the situation by saying, "This is a strong freeze, no one is moving." Another diplomat said, "We are standing in our place."
The text is the fruit of weeks of negotiations, and stipulates support for the March 23 call by the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, for a global ceasefire to facilitate the fight against the spread of the virus.
The text also requires a "humanitarian pause for 90 days", to allow aid to be delivered to the most affected populations in countries facing conflict.
On the backgrounds of Beijing and Washington blocking the vote, a number of diplomats made it clear that China wants to "mention the World Health Organization" in the draft resolution, while the United States "rejects this."
When the US State Department asked about the issue, the response came that it was not used to "comment on ongoing negotiations."
On the other hand, the data gathered for the number of corona virus victims around the world showed that the number of infections rose to 3.2 million as of yesterday morning.
Data from World Meters, the international statistics firm, showed that the total number of people recovered exceeded a million.
It also indicated that the number of deaths exceeded 228,000. The United States leads the world in terms of number of injuries and deaths, followed by injuries, Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
And the United States recorded, on Wednesday evening, the death of more than 2500 people due to the Corona virus within 24 hours, to exceed the number of infections in the United States by one million, along with about 62 thousand deaths, and Spain recorded yesterday 268 deaths of the epidemic of Covid-19 within 24 hours, which is The lowest daily toll since March 20, bringing the total deaths in the country to 24,543 cases.
Italy recorded about 203 thousand injuries and about 28 thousand deaths. As for China, the first focus of the virus, it recorded 82 thousand, 862 infections and 4,633 deaths.
For its part, Germany recorded more than 159 infections with the emerging coronavirus until yesterday morning, and the deaths reached 6135 cases, at least.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization announced that Europe is still in the grip of the epidemic, despite the declining rate of infections in a number of countries, especially Spain.
The head of the World Organization's office in Europe, Hans Klug, warned that the continent was still "in the grip" of the Corona virus pandemic, even as nearly three quarters of the continent's countries eased restrictive measures. In Geneva, the WHO's emergency committee, which is under criticism for its handling of the outbreak of the new Corona virus, held its third meeting yesterday to discuss the continued spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.
In Indonesia, the Corona Virus Working Group announced yesterday that the number of infections exceeded 10,000, for the first time.
And in Tehran, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that the death toll from "Covid-19" has crossed the 6,000 threshold, after 71 new deaths were recorded.
«World Health»: Europe is still in the grip of the epidemic .. And the emergency committee is looking into the spread of «Covid-19».