The United States set a new record in the number of new infections of the Corona virus (Covid-19), as the WHO team arrived in the Chinese capital, Beijing, to investigate the origins of the virus that started spreading around the world from Wuhan.
On Saturday, the United States registered 66,528 new infections with the Corona virus within 24 hours, which is a new record, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University, a reference point in tracking Covid-19 infections and deaths.
Johns Hopkins data showed that the total number of people infected with Covid-19 in the country most affected by the epidemic, rose to 3 million and 242 thousand and 73 people, while the number of deaths increased to 134 thousand and 729.
The daily number of new infections exceeded 60,000 for the fifth consecutive day in the United States, as the epidemic has become out of control in many states.
US President Donald Trump put a muzzle for the first time in a public place on Saturday while visiting a medical center, as the incidence of HIV infections throughout the United States increased.
Trump walked into the corridors of Walter Reed Military Hospital outside Washington with a black mask on his face, before he met injured soldiers, according to television footage.
"I think putting a muzzle on is great, I have never been against masks, but I think it has an appropriate place and time," Trump said before the visit when he left the White House.
According to media reports this week, Trump aides begged him to agree to put a muzzle in public, and to allow reporters to photograph him, with Corona virus infections increasing in some states, and the president lagged Democratic candidate Joe Biden in opinion polls before the November elections.
Trump continues to defend his administration's handling of the epidemic, even though the United States is the country worst hit by the number of casualties in the world.
Investigation team
On the other hand, a preparatory team from the World Health Organization arrived in the Chinese capital, Beijing, to investigate the origins of the Corona virus, and the delegation includes two experts in animal health and epidemiology.
A WHO spokesperson said that experts will search for answers about the possibility of the virus first transmitting from other organisms to humans, and about the animal species from which the virus might have been transmitted.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman described the visit as demonstrating the government's open and transparent stance.
In the latest developments of Arab infections, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced yesterday evening Saturday that it had recorded 67 deaths and 923 cases of Corona virus, as it stated in a statement that it had monitored the recovery of 602 people infected with the virus, and indicated that the total infections rose to 81 thousand and 158, including 3769 deaths. Of these, 23,876 cases recovered.
Yesterday, Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that it had recorded 5 deaths and 463 cases of corona, during the last 24 hours.
The ministry indicated that the total number of injuries - including the West Bank, Gaza Strip and occupied East Jerusalem - rose to 6,668, including 32 deaths, and 829 cases of recovery.
According to the Moroccan Ministry of Health, there were two deaths and 214 cases of corona, in addition to the recovery of 238 patients.
The ministry said in a statement yesterday that the total number of injuries rose to 15,542, including 245 deaths, 12,65 and recovery cases.
In Lebanon, the Ministry of Health announced the registration of 67 HIV infections, in addition to the recovery of 39 cases. And it added - in a later statement - that it recorded 19 cases of foreign citizens, raising the daily number of HIV infections to 86, the highest recorded by Lebanon since the first case was discovered in the country on February 21, and the ministry indicated that the total number of infections rose to 1526, including 36 deaths, 1402 recoveries.
In Somalia, the Ministry of Health and Community Welfare announced - in a statement - that 13 cases of HIV and 55 cases of recovery had been registered, and that the death toll had reached 3051, including 92 deaths, and 1264 recoverers.
And data published by the Turkish Ministry of Health yesterday, Saturday, showed that the total number of people infected with the virus rose to 211,981, after monitoring 1016 new infections. The ministry also recorded 21 new deaths in Corona, taking the total to 5344.
The outcome of the world
A statistic told Reuters that more than 12.75 million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus worldwide, and 563,869 people had died from Covid-19 disease caused by the virus.
HIV infections have been recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since it began appearing in China in December 2019.
The United States topped the list of deaths and injuries, recording 134,659 deaths, out of 3 million and 262,964.
And Brazil came second in the two lists with 71,469 deaths, out of a million and 839 thousand and 850 injuries.
In third place in terms of injuries, India came after registering 820,916 injuries, but it ranked sixth in terms of deaths, with 22,123 deaths.
Russia came fourth in the list of injuries, with 720,547 injuries, although its deaths did not exceed 11,205 deaths.
Britain ranked third in the list of deaths with 44 thousand and 798 deaths, but it ranked sixth in the list of injuries after registering 320 thousand and 407 injuries.
Italy came fourth in the list of deaths after announcing 34,945 cases, but it ranked 13th on the list of injuries, with 242,827 injuries.
As for France, it was the fifth largest country on the list of deaths, recording 30 thousand and 4 cases, but it ranked 16 in terms of injuries, with 205 thousand and 898 cases.
Spain ranked sixth in the list of deaths with 28,403 deaths recorded, but it came in ninth in terms of injuries, with 271,762 injuries.
In Japan, the Japanese Radio and Television Corporation said that officials in Tokyo confirmed monitoring of 206 new cases of Corona virus today, while the Japanese capital is struggling to deal with the return of increased cases after the government lifted the state of emergency. Tokyo recorded more than 200 injuries for the fourth consecutive day.