More than 600 nursing teams worldwide have died from Covid-19 disease, which has affected an estimated 450,000 health care workers, the International Nursing Council said today.

According to figures based on data from more than thirty countries, the number of deaths among nursing teams has more than doubled over a month, compared to 260 on May 6.

"We have seen in the past two months the number of deaths among nursing teams around the world increase from a hundred to more than six hundred now," said Howard Caton, the Geneva-based executive board president.

"And we believe that the number of health care workers around the world who can be infected with the virus is around 450,000."

The Board revealed that an average of 7% of all cases of Covid-19 disease were recorded among health care workers, which means that nursing staff and other workers face a significant risk, "as do the patients who care for them."

Figures and statistics
According to the latest statistics, the Covid-19 epidemic has claimed the lives of at least 380,428 people worldwide since its appearance last December in China, and the United States remains the most affected country, in terms of both deaths and injuries, The death toll was 106 thousand and 181.

After the United States, the United Kingdom comes with 39,369 deaths, Italy with 33,530 deaths, Brazil with 31,199 deaths, and France with 28,940 deaths, and Brazil recorded a daily death toll of 1262 in 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health.

While the virus continues to spread rapidly in Latin America, Colombia has exceeded a thousand deaths less than three months after the first infection was recorded, and Mexico has counted more than ten thousand deaths, with the resumption of economic activity.

Return to normalcy
In Europe, procedures to return to normalcy continue, as the French managed to drink coffee on the sidewalks of cafes on Tuesday, and important tourist sites were reopened cautiously, such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Colosseum in Italy.

Hoping to save its tourism industry, which has been undermined by the health crisis, Italy - where northern Lombardy was the epicenter of the old continent - is reopening its borders to European tourists on Wednesday.

It was now possible for Italians to move freely between regions, but banning large gatherings and imposing protective masks in closed places and on public transport remained in effect, and the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, warned that the epidemic crisis was "not over."

The British government plans to build air bridges with some of the least affected countries, to spare many travelers entering the UK the quarantine feared by many workers in the tourism sector.

For its part, Latvia lifted the imposition of a stone on Wednesday for travelers from more than twenty European countries, after a similar step by neighboring Estonia and Lithuania.

As for Germany - which is the largest European economy - it is assumed that it will also decide today on the issue of canceling the warnings of tourism travel within the European Union, which were issued to combat the epidemic.

Singapore and China
Asia, Singapore and China agreed to ease travel restrictions for company representatives and officials on both sides, in light of their aspiration to restore basic economic activities that were disrupted by the Corona pandemic.

Bloomberg News quoted a joint statement issued by the ministries of trade, industry and foreign affairs on both sides today, Wednesday, that, regarding travel to Singapore, travelers from government agencies will submit requests through their destinations starting from June 8 this year.

Corona and Refugees
On the other hand, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, who he said were severely affected by the outbreak of the emerging Corona virus.

In a video message, Guterres said that migrants face a humanitarian crisis, as they often live in crowded places, and lack the tools to protect themselves from the virus.

Meanwhile, the socio-economic crisis affects those without stable livelihoods.

He added that immigrants are also facing a protection crisis, as many countries close their borders to asylum seekers, in light of the growing xenophobia and racism.

Corona in Yemen and
in Yemen, the European Union confirmed today that it will allocate more than seventy million euros to help the population most affected by the Corona crisis in Yemen.

"The commission will provide new funding amounting to seventy million euros for Yemen, as the Corona virus threatens to aggravate one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, in which famine is essentially imminent," a European Union statement said.

"Of this package, more than forty million euros will help prevent and respond to the Corona virus pandemic in the country," he added.

The statement stressed that reaching a political solution to end the conflict in Yemen is urgent, noting that the European Union supported the efforts led by the United Nations to resume peace talks and achieve sustainable peace in the country.