Until now, the new Corona virus infected 7 million and 658 thousand around the world, of whom 424 thousand and 757 died, while more than 3 million and 500 thousand have recovered, which represents about 46% of the total cases.
The United States leads the world in terms of the number of infections and deaths resulting from the emerging corona virus, with more than 2 million infections, 114,613 deaths, so far.
During the last 24 hours, the United States recorded 839 additional deaths from the Corona virus. It still records more than 20,000 new infections a day, and finds it difficult to reduce this number.
Every day, the United States conducts half a million laboratory tests to detect people infected with the virus.
Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said that the government would not impose a new shutdown to combat the Corona virus, despite the emergence of new outposts of the virus in some states.
"We cannot shut down the economy. I think we have learned that closing the economy is causing more damage," he added in an interview with the US network, "CNBC."
The Wall Street Journal quoted White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow as saying that the US administration was not concerned about a second wave of Corona virus.
For its second place
, Brazil has become the second largest globally in the number of deaths, with 41,828 deaths, surpassing Britain, which has 41,481 deaths.
And Brazil has occupied the world number two for weeks since the number of infections, as it recorded 828 thousand cases of the virus.
During the last 24 hours, Brazil recorded more than 900 deaths and nearly 26,000 new infections.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health said that more than 365,000 people infected with Covid-19 have recovered from the disease.
Welcome to the Europeans and
in France, a statement of the Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs stated that the authorities will next Monday lift the restrictions imposed on its borders in front of travelers from European Union countries.
"In light of the favorable development in the health situation in France and Europe and in accordance with the recommendations of the European Commission, France will lift on June 15 this year all restrictions imposed on its borders in front of European internal traffic (land, air and sea) that was applied to fight the Covid-19 epidemic," the statement said. ".
The statement added that travelers from the European Union member states as well as from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland and the Vatican, will be able to enter the French territory without restrictions.
The statement pointed out that restrictions on imposing a two-week quarantine upon arrival will continue at the borders with Spain and the United Kingdom, in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.
Fear after victory
In the same context, the Chinese authorities temporarily closed a major market for agricultural products in the capital, Beijing, after the number of local infections with the Corona virus rose over the past two days.
The Shenfady market was closed to the wholesale market at three in the morning, Saturday, local time, after it was announced Friday that two men had been infected with the virus at a meat research center.
The two had visited this market recently, and it is not yet clear how they were infected with the Corona virus.
Fear of a second wave of the virus is increasing in China after it announced that it had managed to control the epidemic.
To date, China has recorded more than 83,000 HIV infections and 4,634 deaths.
It is noteworthy that the new Corona virus appeared for the first time in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, and later spread to the European continent and the United States, and spread in various parts of the world.