The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it recorded the highest daily daily increase for people infected with the new epidemic of corona virus globally on Sunday, as 230,370 people were infected in 24 hours, while the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Army ordered the Marines at its base on a Japanese island to stay after an outbreak Disease in them.
The largest increase was for people infected with the virus emerging in the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to the WHO. The highest daily global increase for the injured was recorded on the tenth of this month, by about 228 thousand and 102 cases.
The death toll from the disease was approximately 5,000 per day, which is an almost constant average for the last period. In total, the number of people affected by the pandemic, since it first appeared in China last January, has approached 13 million, according to a Reuters count, and the number of deaths has increased to more than 565,000.
Florida fourth globally
and back to the United States, the largest global focus of the pandemic, the southeastern Florida state recorded an unprecedented increase in people infected with the virus, as it exceeded 15,000 in one day, and the authorities were forced to close some companies, beaches and bars to combat the pandemic.
And Reuters reported that if Florida were a country it would be ranked fourth in the world in terms of the number of daily injuries, after the United States, Brazil and India.
Daily increases in Florida exceeded the highest daily toll recorded by any European country during the height of the disease, and the state broke the US record that was recorded in New York State when it was the center of the disease in the country, as it recorded 12846 new infections on the tenth of last April.
In America as well, President Donald Trump appeared yesterday for the first time, putting a muzzle during his visit to Walter Reed Military Hospital on the outskirts of Washington, in a step that takes a great symbolic nature in this country.
Since the virus began spreading, Trump has avoided appearing with a muzzle in front of the public despite recommendations from health authorities. In doing so, he contributed to making this issue a matter of political dispute, because the refusal to place the muzzle is viewed by part of society as a confirmation of the individual freedom of the citizen.
A US base and
in Japan, the US military ordered its soldiers working on Japan's Okinawa Island to stay inside their base, after an outbreak of Coronavirus infections in their ranks. Marine spokesman Ken Kenzi said the Marine Corps had informed Okinawa Island officials that 61 new cases of the virus had been discovered inside the base between 7 and 11 July.
And Danny Kamati, the governor of the Japanese island - which hosts about 50 thousand American soldiers - criticized the US army's handling of the pandemic, and expressed his fear of the spread of injuries among the people of the island, after the American soldiers organized public celebrations on the occasion of the American Independence Day on the fourth of this month.
In the Middle East, the pandemic has so far caused the death of more than 20,000 people, about half of them in Iran, according to a tally compiled by Agence France-Presse according to official sources as of 10:00 am GMT today.
And the disease erupted in Iran on 12 thousand and 829 out of 257 thousand and 303 cases of infection, according to official figures published today, and 3055 people died from the virus in Iraq between 75 thousand and 194 cases, and in Saudi Arabia died from the disease 2181 of a total of 229 thousand and 480 cases.
The average death rate in the Middle East region was 43 deaths per million people, according to the French Press Agency census. The world average was about 70 deaths per million people.