Australia yesterday ordered millions of people in Melbourne, its second largest city, to need their homes, due to the high numbers of new Coronavirus infections, while countries around the world are making strenuous efforts to stop the spread of the epidemic. While some countries still fear a second wave of infections, the number of infections has increased in several countries, while deaths from the virus have increased in India, to exceed 20 thousand cases.
In detail, the death toll from "Covid-19", in the world, exceeded 11.6 million, with more than 538 thousand deaths. And there was a new danger in Australia, which had been able - to a great extent - to stop the infection, after it announced yesterday, the isolation of five million people in Melbourne, to reduce new infections.
"We cannot claim that the emerging Corona virus crisis is over," said Victoria State Prime Minister Daniel Andrews, after Melbourne, the state's largest city, recorded 191 new infections in 24 hours.
He added: "They are high numbers ... There is simply no alternative option (for isolation measures), except for thousands and thousands of injuries ... and perhaps more."
The closure of the Melbourne city area will begin at midnight on Wednesday, and will continue for at least six weeks, while Victoria will be isolated from the rest of the country a day ago.
Police and soldiers monitor dozens of crossing points with other states, while aircraft are deployed, some of which are unmanned.
And there has been a significant increase in infections worldwide, from Iran and South Africa to Brazil and India.
Brazil has become the second largest epidemic-affected country in the world, with over 65,000 deaths and 1.6 million HIV infections.
On the other hand, Beijing announced that no new infections were recorded for the first time, since a new focus appeared in the Chinese capital in June, which raised fears of a second wave of the epidemic.
Yesterday, the National Health Commission of China announced the registration of eight new cases of coronavirus, all of them from abroad.
Xinhua news agency quoted the commission as saying that Liaoning Province, Shanghai Municipality and Sichuan Province had two cases, one in Inner Mongolia and one in Guangdong Province. The country did not record new deaths.
Corona deaths in India have risen to more than 20 thousand, in light of the high incidence of HIV infection every day, while India has begun to ease restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the Corona virus.
Yesterday, the Indian Ministry of Health said that 22,452 cases of coronavirus infection and 467 deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 719 thousand and 665 cases, and 20160 deaths. The rate of new infections, along with deaths, has increased at a faster rate, after India started easing closures since mid-May, and worked to resume domestic flights and train flights, and reopened workplaces and markets.
India has become the third country most affected by the Corona virus, after the United States of America and Brazil.
A statistics revealed to "Reuters", based on official data sources, that the death toll, which is suspected to have resulted from Covid-19 disease, in Britain reached 55,398 people.
The census includes deaths reported by Coffid-19 as a cause of death certificates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as of June 26 and until 28 of the same month in Scotland. It also includes hospital deaths after this time.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in France reached 206,442, yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.
In Spain, the number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus, which causes the disease (Covid-19), reached 251,789 yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Switzerland reached 32,315.
The data indicated that the deaths from the virus remained at 1965 cases, without recording additional deaths, for the fourth consecutive day.
Russia announced yesterday that it recorded 6,368 new infections with the Coruna virus, bringing the total number of cases of the virus to 694,230.
In Tehran, the Iranian authorities announced yesterday that 200 people had died as a result of "Covid-19" in 24 hours, in a new record.
Yesterday, the Thai government announced that no new cases of coronavirus were recorded during the past 24 hours, in addition to that no deaths were recorded.