Yesterday, the Chinese authorities ordered the imposition of emergency isolation on 11 neighborhoods in the capital, Beijing, after the emergence of a new focus of the new Corona virus and infections in a large wholesale market, which raises the fear of a new outbreak of the "Covid-19" epidemic in the country, where the disease arose late last year. At the present time, Brazil has become the second most affected country after the United States by the virus, which killed 425,282 people in the world, while more than 7.6 million people contract it.
In Beijing, officials in the Fengtai District announced on Saturday a "war mechanism" to combat the new wave. Zhu Junwei, an official in Fengtai, southwest of Beijing, told a press briefing that the region was "in a state of war emergency."
He added that tests that included 517 people in the Xinfadi agricultural products market in the region showed that 45 of them were infected with the virus, although there were no symptoms of "Covid-19" on any of them.
Zhou said a person in the market in Haidian District, in northwest Beijing, had also been diagnosed with "corona" without showing symptoms.
The municipality of Fengtai District said it had closed 11 districts around the market as part of measures to curb the spread of the virus, and the market had also been closed.
After it was announced that two men had been infected with the virus, they worked at a meat research center.
Seven cases of "Covid-19" disease, caused by the virus, were reported in the vicinity of the Xinfadi Market in Beijing, including six on Saturday, according to health authorities.
The authorities closed the market, as well as another market for the sale of seafood, which had been infected, for sterilization and sampling. Nine schools and nurseries were also closed in the area.
The new infections raise fears of new outposts in China for the epidemic that the authorities have been able to control, by imposing strict quarantine measures.
After settling in the United States (more than 114,000 deaths), there is an increase in the number of injuries in states where economic activity resumed as of April, which raises the fear of a second wave of injuries.
The same scenario is occurring in South Africa, where the number of casualties rose suddenly, amounting to more than 10,000 in one day, which raised the total to 62,000 on Friday, a week after the isolation measures were eased.
In total, the "Covid-19" epidemic has claimed 425,282 lives, while more than 7.6 million people worldwide have contracted the virus, according to official sources.
Brazil has recorded 41,828 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, the United Kingdom in the number of new deaths of "Corona".
Also in Latin America, the new epicenter of the global epidemic, Mexico and Chile recorded their worst daily numbers on Friday. The total number of deaths in Mexico has reached 15,000 since the beginning of the epidemic, and in Chile, 2870.
In Honduras, Professor Marco Tolio Medina of the National University announced that the country was "on the verge of the collapse of its hospital system."
In Europe, where the hour of reckoning took place, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Friday, for nearly three hours, made his statements about the government's management of the new "Corona" crisis.
In Britain, the airlines "British Airways", "EasyJet" and "Ryanair" decided to prosecute the government, in an attempt to end the quarantine imposed on arrivals to the United Kingdom, with the approaching summer season.
In Madrid, Spain has "frozen" the total number of deaths caused by the Coronavirus emerging days ago, which raises doubts about the frequency of the epidemic in one of the countries most affected by "Covid-19".
Fernando Simon, the senior epidemiologist in the Ministry of Health, who submits the daily health status report, acknowledged that the ministry's figures are "confusing" and "surprising" since the method of calculating injuries and deaths on May 25.
This situation led Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to announce before the deputies that there were "no longer deaths registered" in Spain as a result of "Covid-19".
In doing so, he gave an excuse to the opposition from the right and the far right to accuse the government of hiding the true number of deaths.
For its part, Russia announced yesterday that it recorded 8,706 new cases of coronavirus, exceeding its total of 520,000, and two statements showed that more than 2,700 people infected with the disease died in April.
The total number of injuries reached 520129, the third highest in the world after the United States and Brazil.
Russia has recorded 6829 deaths so far, much less than countries experiencing a major outbreak.
Corona's injuries in Russia exceed 520,000 ... and doubts about Spain's "freezing" of death numbers.