Specialists from the World Health Organization (WHO) have recorded a new surge in the incidence of COVID-19 in Europe after countries in the region began to relax previously imposed restrictions. On Thursday, June 25, said the Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Hans Kluge.
According to him, the acceleration of the rate of coronavirus infection was detected over the past two weeks in 30 European countries. Moreover, in 11 countries, the increase in cases is so significant that if it is not stopped, then this will again push the European health systems to the edge of the abyss.
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- AFP news agency (@AFP) June 25, 2020The total number of detected cases of coronavirus infection around the world as of mid day on June 25 (15:25 Moscow time) exceeded 9.277 million people, 478 691 died. This was reported on the official website of the World Health Organization.
According to published statistics, over the past day, 135,212 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected, and 4,187 deaths due to the disease were also recorded.
The highest number of infected cases occurs in North and South America, the total number of cases there exceeds 4.6 million (49.6% of the global total). Europe continues to follow, with more than 2.58 million cases (27.8%).
Recall that the World Health Organization declared a pandemic situation with the spread of a new coronavirus infection on March 11, 2020, when the total number of cases detected worldwide exceeded 124 thousand with 4,5 thousand who died from complications.
USA and the first three
According to the latest WHO data, the number of cases in the United States is approaching 2.33 million, but according to the Johns Hopkins University, the number of infected people in the country already exceeds 2.38 million, of which 122 thousand people (5.1%) died. Also reported about 656 thousand recovered.
Over the past few days, about 35 thousand new infections per day were recorded twice in the country - these are the highest rates since April, which are among the five maximum levels of daily morbidity for the entire pandemic.
According to The New York Times, a record number of coronavirus infections have been reported in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. The growth of cases also resumed in the state of Washington, which in March was one of the first outbreaks of COVID-19 in the USA.
Brazil ranks second in the world in the number of cases detected: according to the Ministry of Health of the country, over the last day it has increased by 42,725 and reached 1,188,631 people. According to the latest WHO data, nearly 1.15 million cases have been confirmed.
Over the past 24 hours, 1,185 infected people died in Brazil, a total of 53,830 patients (4.5%) have died since the pandemic.
A source in RIA Novosti in medical circles said that Brazil began testing a vaccine developed by British specialists from Oxford in partnership with one of the pharmaceutical corporations. The study involved two thousand volunteers.
The third place in the number of cases detected in the world is Russia, where the diagnosis was confirmed in 614 thousand people (mortality rate of 1.4%), but the number of new cases is steadily decreasing after passing the peak in the first decade of May. India follows, there are over 473 thousand cases of COVID-19 infection recorded and the peak has not yet been reached - over the past 24 hours the number of people infected in the country has grown by almost 17 thousand (mortality rate 3.1%).
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Ukraine's anti-record and decline in Europe
This is followed by the United Kingdom, where the total number of cases exceeded 306 thousand with 43 thousand deaths (mortality 14%). According to WHO data, the top ten countries with the highest number of identified COVID-19 carriers also include Peru (261 thousand), Chile (255 thousand), Spain (247 thousand), Italy (239 thousand) and Iran (212, 5 thousand).
The number of newly detected cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine shows record values for the second day in a row. The day before, about 940 infected were reported, and on Thursday - about 994. In total, since the start of the epidemic, 40 thousand positive diagnoses for coronavirus have been registered in the country (mortality rate 2.7%).
“Today is another anti-record. Over the past day, 994 people fell ill, including 64 children, as well as 103 health workers. 16 deaths were recorded. 349 people recovered. In total, during the pandemic, 40,008 people fell ill, of which 2,936 children and 6346 health workers. A total of 17,750 people recovered, and 1,067 deaths, ”said Minister of Health Maxim Stepanov during the briefing.
China
Meanwhile, in China, where an initial outbreak of infection occurred in December 2019, 19 active cases and one asymptomatic carrier of coronavirus infection were recorded over the past day. Of these, 13 were identified in Beijing. This was reported in the State Committee on Health of China. There were no deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.
The total number of imported cases of coronavirus in the PRC increased to 1893, 1805 people have already successfully completed treatment, 88 are in medical facilities.
Against the background of a gradual improvement in the situation in several regions, the WHO representative in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, on RT said that it is recommended that all countries remain vigilant, despite the decrease in statistics on the incidence rate.
“You need to understand that the virus is still present in the settlements and its infectivity remains the same. Therefore, all countries and areas where statistics have declined or new cases are not being recorded now, the World Health Organization recommends maintaining increased vigilance in order to quickly identify clusters of new cases and stop the spread of infection, ”she emphasized.