Covid-19 has killed at least 469,060 people worldwide and contaminated more than 9 million, according to a report released Monday by AFP, while the coronavirus pandemic "continues to accelerate" according to the Organization World Health Organization (WHO).

More than 9,017,010 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 4,223,800 are now considered cured.

This number of diagnosed cases, however, only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections. Some countries only test severe cases, others use testing as a priority for tracing, and many poor countries have limited screening capacity.

"Lack of global solidarity"

The pandemic "continues to accelerate," warned on Monday the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during a virtual conference organized by the emirate of Dubai on Monday.

"It took more than three months for the first million cases to be reported. The last million cases were reported in just eight days."

"The biggest threat we face today is not the virus itself, but the lack of global solidarity and global leadership," he added.

"We cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world. The politicization of the pandemic has exacerbated it."

"Second wave" in South Korea

China, the birthplace of Covid-19, officially counted a total of 83,396 cases (18 new between Sunday and Monday), including 4,634 deaths and 78,413 healings (without the territories of Hong Kong and Macao).

South Korea admitted on Tuesday that it has been fighting since "mid-May" against a "second wave" of coronavirus, with between 35 and 50 new cases recorded every day, mainly in Seoul and its surroundings.

While in the United States, the country most grieving by the Covid-19, the toll exceeded Monday 120,000 deaths for 2.31 million cases identified, Brazil, remains the second most affected country in the world with a total of 51,271 deaths for more than 1.1 million cases.

A country without a health strategy in the face of the coronavirus, Brazil is governed by a president Jair Bolsonaro who minimized the crisis and called on the population not to remain confined, in the name of preserving jobs.

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