The United Nations World Food Program has warned that there are about 14 million people at risk of severe starvation in Latin America and the Caribbean, due to the Corona virus crisis.
The program said it was undertaking projects in Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Peru and a developing island in the Caribbean, to remedy the expected crisis.
In Brazil, the Ministry of Health said that the country set a record number of daily infections with the Corona virus, as it recorded 26,417 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total number to 438,238 cases.
Thus, Brazil has the second highest number of confirmed cases of corona after the United States.
The number of deaths due to infection with the virus increased by 1156 cases from the previous day, bringing the total number to 26,754.
The continued high rates of infection with the Corona virus in South America - which the World Health Organization has described as the new epicenter of the epidemic - at a time when the indicator of the spread of the virus tends to stabilize or decline in many parts of the world.
Yemen is no better
. As for Yemen, senior officials from several United Nations agencies today appealed to the international community for urgent international financial support with the outbreak of the new Corona virus in this war-torn country.
Officials from the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization said in a joint statement; “We are increasingly concerned about the situation in Yemen,” he said. “Time is running out of us.”
The United Nations says the Covid-19 virus is likely to have spread to most parts of Yemen, which is mired in the world's worst humanitarian crisis due to a war that is not yet ending.
Lifting the restrictions and
with the spread of the epidemic, Spain, Turkey, France and Britain announced the lifting of many of the restrictions imposed in the framework of fighting against the Corona virus, Kuwait also eased the comprehensive curfew in two parts, and Jordan announced that it would reopen mosques and churches.
Spain indicated today that it will reduce further isolation measures starting next week, allowing 70% of the population to visit restaurants, swimming pools and shopping centers.
The French government also announced the lifting of a large part of the restrictions imposed on the population, starting from June 2, in light of the decline in the spread of the disease, and supported the reopening of the internal borders of Europe in the middle of next month.
In a related context, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the success of his country in the five tests that were required by the government to ease the general closure, and the country will start next Monday to gradually open schools, and on June 15 it will reopen non-essential shops.
Arab countries
and Arab, Kuwaiti Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh announced that the comprehensive curfew will be reduced to a partial curfew for 12 hours, from 6 pm until 6 am, starting next Sunday, adding that normal life will return through five phases, taking a total of 15 weeks starting from Sunday Next.
Jordan also decided to open mosques and churches starting from the fifth of next month, more than two months after their closure, and to study the amendment of the comprehensive ban imposed every Friday, allowing citizens to access the mosques on foot at the time of Friday prayer, provided that the Friday sermon be short In excess of 15 minutes.
Egypt continues to record increases in the number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus, and Thursday, 1127 cases were recorded, in the highest daily death toll since the outbreak began, up from 910 cases the previous day.
29 new deaths were recorded, compared to 19 the previous day. This brings the total number of people infected with coronavirus in the country as of Thursday, 20,793, of whom 5359 were recovered and discharged from isolation hospitals, and 845 deaths.
In Sudan, a team of Chinese medical experts arrived Thursday to support anti-corona efforts in the country.
According to a statement issued by the media of the Cabinet, the visit of the Chinese medical experts team to the country is a generous initiative by the Chinese government to stand with the Sudanese people as they face the Corna pandemic.
For his part, Sudanese Health Minister Akram Ali Al-Tom said that the Corona epidemic is still spreading in Sudan despite the measures taken to confront it.
No injuries in China
, China's health authorities said Friday that they had not registered any new confirmed infections with the Corona virus emerging on the mainland yesterday, Thursday, after two cases had been recorded the previous day.
It is noteworthy that the new corona virus has killed at least 357,311 people in the world since its appearance in China last December, and infected more than 5 million and 747 thousand and 100 people - officially - in 196 countries and regions, since the outbreak of the epidemic. Corona virus causing Covid-19 disease, while at least two million 296 thousand and 900 patients have recovered to date.
However, these numbers only reflect a part of the actual number of injuries, as many countries conduct tests only for serious cases, and other countries use tests primarily to track the injured, while many poor countries have only limited capabilities to perform the tests.