Anthony Fauchi, director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Allergies in the United States, said that at least one of the Corona Virus (Covid-19) vaccines will be available at the end of the year, while the number of virus deaths in Latin America exceeds that in North America for the first time since the pandemic began.
The development of vaccines for the Corona virus has advanced stages of clinical trials, Fauchi said, noting that at least one of these vaccines will be available by the end of this year.
In terms of numbers, a Reuters statistic showed - based on official data - that by Monday, Latin America had recorded 144,680 deaths from Corona disease compared to 143,847 in North America, which includes Canada and the United States.
Initially, the United States and Canada experienced an increase in the number of cases, but Latin America faced great difficulties in containing the outbreak once it moved out of the high-end neighborhoods where the injuries were usually those who traveled abroad.
Poverty, informal employment and the deteriorating health care situation - especially in remote areas - contributed to the spread of the disease on a larger scale.
In the United States, Johns Hopkins data until early Tuesday morning showed that the total number of people infected with Covid-19 rose to 3.36 million, of whom 135,582 died, including 411 who died within the past 24 hours.
The United States is - and is vastly different from the rest of the world - the country most affected by the Covid 19-pandemic, whether in terms of deaths or injuries.
Numbers without the truth
However, these figures, despite their huge numbers, remain in the eyes of the epidemiologists without the actual numbers, and the reason for this is the difficulties that obstructed the processes of undergoing laboratory tests during the past March and April.
On Monday, California State Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the reopening of businesses and activities in the state following a sharp rise in the number of new Coronavirus infections.
The two largest school districts in the state - Los Angeles and San Diego - have announced that all educational processes will be online when the study resumes after a few weeks.
Florida, Arizona, California, and Texas have become new pandemic hotspots in the United States in recent weeks.
According to Reuters analyzes, infections have increased rapidly in 40 US states from 50 over the past two weeks.
The latest figures came hours after sharp criticism of US President Donald Trump to health experts who are leading the country’s response to the pandemic, and at a time when his relationship with the chief communicable disease expert in the United States, Anthony Fawcci, is deteriorating.
Trump and my legacy
For days, Trump has criticized Fawcci, who has warned - sometimes in harsh terms - that American officials and citizens have not done enough to tackle the pandemic.
But Trump came back on Monday and said his relationship was "very good" with Fauchi, a member of the Corona Virus Cell in the United States.
"My relationship with Dr. Fuchi is very good," Trump told reporters, adding, "I find him a very nice person, but I don't always agree with him."
And last week, Trump said, "Dr. Fuchi is a nice guy, but he made a lot of mistakes."
At the end of the week, a White House official sought to undermine Fawcci 's credibility by leaking an anonymous source to The Washington Post that White House officials were "concerned about the number of times Fawcci was wrong".
In Britain, health experts said that next winter, Britain may face a second wave of Covid-19 disease that will be more deadly, and may kill up to 120,000 people over a period of 9 months in the worst scenarios.
This came in a report by the British Academy of Medical Sciences published on Tuesday, and Stephen Holgate - a university professor who participated in preparing the report - said that with the possibility of a spread of Covid-19 in the winter when people spend more time together in closed places, a second wave of the pandemic "may be More dangerous than the wave we are witnessing now. "
"This is not a prediction but a possibility," he told an online news conference. "Deaths may be higher with the emergence of a new wave of Covid-19 this winter, but the risk of this happening can be reduced if we take action immediately."
The current number of deaths of Covid-19 disease in the UK was about 45,000, the highest in Europe, and a Reuters count based on official data sources said that more than 55,000 people in all died, including cases suspected of being infected with the disease.