US health officials are concerned about the never-ending Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. "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.

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 that's something that really worries me," he said, as more than 32,000 cases have been diagnosed in the past 24 hours.

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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.

EU could ban Americans from territory

Texas, which quickly began its deconfinement at the beginning of May, notably registered on Tuesday 5 000 new infections - a record - pushing its republican governor, Greg Abbott, to call on his fellow citizens to stay at home. The Covid-19 even got the better of the White House Correspondents' annual dinner, which was scheduled for August 29.

The situation is so serious in the United States that, according to the New York Times, the European Union (EU) plans to ban its territory from the Americans once it has reopened its borders to third countries. The daily cited two lists of countries whose nationals would be allowed to travel to Europe, and which are the subject of negotiations within the EU. Americans are currently excluded from the two lists.

Course crossed in Latin America

In the Caribbean and Latin America, the current epicenter of the epidemic, the toll exceeded 100,000 deaths on Tuesday. 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. These efforts were not enough to stop the pandemic: 24 residents of the reserve were infected and two died from Covid-19.

More than 200 Peruvian police officers died from the coronavirus and more than 15,000 were contaminated while trying to enforce confinement in this country which is among the most affected in Latin America with Brazil, Mexico and Chile.

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.

"Too early"

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 take place in July, but will be reduced: only a thousand pilgrims will be allowed to participate .

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