More than a thousand people died of the emerging coronavirus in both the United States and Brazil within 24 hours, at a time when the epidemic continues to spread rapidly in the Americas, unlike Europe, which continues its slow return to normal.
On Thursday, Brazil recorded more than a thousand deaths in 24 hours, for the sixth consecutive day, raising the total to 26,754.
The country also recorded a record number of injuries during one day (26,417), bringing the total number of injuries to approximately 440,000.
In a country where there is a shortage of exams, the real numbers may be 15 times greater than official numbers, according to scientists.
The health crisis is sometimes associated with another food, as is the northeast. Alsioni Albanese, founder of the humanitarian organization "Amigos de Bim", says that in 26 years, "I have never seen so many people live in anxiety or starvation."
In the United States, the country most affected by the epidemic (more than 1.7 million injuries) recorded a daily death toll of no more than 700 over three days, but the number of deaths re-increased on Wednesday and Thursday (1401 and 1297). The country has crossed the threshold of 100,000 deaths.
Within five months, from the end of December, when the virus appeared in Wuhan (central China), killing about 360,000 people and affecting more than 5.8 million people. Indeed, these numbers are likely to be much lower than the numbers.
A second wave
While Europe is seeing an improvement in the epidemiological situation on its soil, this is not the case in South America. On Thursday evening, countries such as Chile and Peru set new records, the first in terms of deaths (46) and the second in terms of injuries (5874).
There are other countries that control the situation more, like Bolivia (about 300 deaths and 5400 injuries), which will announce the easing of the isolation measures as of Monday.
The new corona virus causes a lot of suffering. In a cemetery in Guayaquil - the economic capital of Ecuador, the country worst affected by the disease - the first container carrying the bodies of the victims of the virus arrived on April 9. The unpleasant smell of decomposing corpses is still released in the neighborhood when the wind blows.
The recovery of economic activity sometimes collides with fear of a second wave of injuries. In a seaside resort in southern England, a group of merchants says "Don't come to Margate!" Expressing their fear of the idea of a second wave of injuries, as others rush to reopen their stores to survive.
In Asia - the first continent where the epidemic was spread and which seemed to be on the way to controlling it - two warnings were issued.
On Thursday, South Korea - the country often given a model for managing the epidemic - returned restrictions it had recently filed after registering 79 new infections in a single day, 69 of them at an online trading company warehouse near Seoul, in the highest toll from daily infections in nearly two months.
On the other hand, Sri Lanka will re-impose isolation measures on Sunday, after registering the largest daily death toll, mostly among Kuwaiti citizens, and sailors at a base near Colombo.
Coffee in Paris
Caution still prevails during the exit process of isolation. Unlike New York, the most affected city in the world, Washington was relatively untouched by the outbreak. On Friday, the US capital begins lifting restrictions.
And the lifting of the isolation continues in a more advanced manner today, Friday, in other countries such as Austria, with the reopening of hotels and tourist sites, and in Turkey the mosques are partially reopened despite the announcement by the Ministry of Interior of a curfew imposed on Saturday and Sunday in 14 major governorates.
In France, the government allowed, from Tuesday, to reopen parks, bars and restaurants that had been closed since mid-March, while maintaining some restrictions, especially in and around Paris.
In the capital, Paris, it will be possible to sip coffee in the outside patios of cafes. "Ultimately, freedom will revert to the base, and the ban will be the exception," said Prime Minister Edward Philip.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson Thursday also announced new measures to reduce isolation. Starting on Monday, schools and shops will reopen and a maximum of six people will be allowed to gather in an open space provided that two meters between each person are respected.
On the same day, it was announced that the English Premier League would resume on June 17, as well as the Italian League on June 20. This will come days after the La Liga resume (June 8). Germany was the first European country to resume football matches in mid-May, and it will resume its women's championship on Friday.
This comes at a time when the German "Robert Koch" Institute for Combating Infectious and Non-communicable Diseases Friday morning recorded 741 new cases of new Coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to the virus to 180,458.
The institute said that the number of deaths due to infection with the virus amounted to 8450 as of this morning, an increase of 39 compared to yesterday.
Japan and China
On the Asian continent, Tokyo Governor Yoriko Koike said more measures will be taken to ease restrictions imposed to curb the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the capital from Monday.
Koike added in a press conference today, Friday, that schools, gymnasiums and theaters will be allowed to reopen, among other facilities, in a phased process to ease public isolation measures.
In contrast, the US embassy in Beijing said Friday, in a travel notification, that the Chinese civil aviation authorities intend to extend their restrictions on international flights until June 30, as part of efforts to contain the spread of the Corona virus.
China imposed severe restrictions on those flights in March, amid fears that the infection would spread through travelers arriving in the country.
The policy allows mainland airlines to make only one flight per week across one route to any country, and foreign airlines make only one flight per week to China.