The American health authorities worried on Tuesday about a "worrying" push in the United States of the epidemic of Covid-19, which passed the milestone of 100,000 deaths in Latin America. "The next two weeks will be critical" to respond to these "worrying" surges, "warned Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief white house immunologist, before a committee of the House of Representatives.
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32,000 cases diagnosed in 24 hours in the United States
Contrary to what Donald Trump implied when referring to increases related to the number of tests, the immunologist stressed that this increase came mainly from "contagion" between inhabitants. "And it's something that really worries me," he said, as more than 32,000 cases have been diagnosed in the past 24 hours.
The United States is the country most mourning for the Covid-19 with 121,176 deaths, including nearly 800 in the last 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which refers. Texas, which very quickly began its deconfinement at the beginning of May, notably registered on Tuesday 5,000 new infections - a record since the beginning of the pandemic - pushing its republican governor, Greg Abbott, to call on his fellow citizens to stay at home.
In the Caribbean and Latin America, the current epicenter of the epidemic, the toll exceeded 100,000 deaths on Tuesday, more than half of which in Brazil, according to a count made by AFP using official data. More than 200 Peruvian police officers died from the coronavirus and more than 15,000 were infected while trying to enforce confinement in this country which is among the most affected in Latin America with Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
Indigenous people flee to the forest
Mexico in particular has recorded 6,288 new cases in the last 24 hours. Donald Trump also praised Tuesday the effectiveness of the wall built between the United States and Mexico. "He stopped the Covid, he stopped everything," he said. In the face of the epidemic, Colombia has extended the confinement until July 15.
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In Brazil, where the latest death toll shows 52,645 dead, including 1,374 in the past 24 hours, indigenous peoples have fled into the forest to escape the coronavirus, while others have blocked access to their villages. "The pandemic has posed a lot of problems for us. We are only 15 minutes from Colombia and people from there came here to buy us fish or fruit," says Sildonei Mendes da Silva, cacique of the Umariaçu people.
These efforts were not enough to stop the pandemic: 24 residents of the reserve were infected and two died from Covid-19.
600,000 people reconfigured in Germany
On the Old Continent, Germany reconfigured on Tuesday more than 600,000 people in the face of the eruption of an outbreak of contamination in the largest slaughterhouse in Europe, where more than 1,550 people were contaminated.
World tennis number one, Serbian champion Novak Djokovic, has also tested positive, but without symptoms. Contaminated on the sidelines of a charity tournament which he had organized in June, in disregard of health precautions, he admitted having "been wrong" to schedule such an event. "It was too early".
In Italy, medical authorities are concerned about a possible second wave. In Spain, Catalonia has reversed its decision to authorize the reopening of nightclubs, allowing only people who already know each other to dance, and only in restaurants or hotels.
Potential vector of large-scale contamination, the hajj, the great annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and one of the five pillars of Islam, will indeed take place in July, but will be reduced: only a thousand pilgrims will be allowed to participate .