According to the latest figures, the new Corona virus infected 13 million and 428 thousand around the world, 578 thousand and 718 people died, while 7 million and 240 thousand people were recovered.
The fear of the outbreak has returned to the countries that have witnessed a significant improvement in recent weeks, in a time when Iran has revealed the number of deaths among medical teams.
On the other hand, hopes were raised that a vaccine could soon be reached, which would curb the expansion of the virus, with advanced experiments announced in this regard.
The United States leads the world in terms of the number of injuries and deaths by 3 million and 450 thousand injuries, and more than 136 thousand deaths.
In the past 24 hours, the United States has recorded 63,262 infections and 850 deaths from the emerging coronavirus.
In second place is Brazil, which has recorded 2 million injuries and more than 74,000 deaths so far.
During the past 24 hours, the Brazilian health authorities recorded 1,300 deaths from infection with the Coronavirus.
Fear returns
In parts of the Asia Pacific region that have had somewhat successful fighting the epidemic, evidence of the continuing threat posed by the virus has emerged.
Hong Kong authorities have ordered the bars, sports clubs and beauty salons to be closed again, and banned gatherings of more than four people as part of efforts to contain a new outbreak of the epidemic after months of remarkable success in fighting it.
Fears also arose in Japan, as Tokyo announced the highest alert level for the virus, after a high number of infections was recorded.
In Australia, the authorities have appealed to citizens to adhere to the Social Divergence Guidelines, while isolation measures involving around 5 million people in Melbourne have been continuing since last week.
The Spanish government of Catalonia asked the people of the city of Lerida (northeast) for their homes. The measures affect about 160,000 people who are only allowed to go out to work, to buy food and medicine, or to exercise.
And in turn, Andorra imposed Wednesday putting the muzzle in public places on all those over the age of 10 years, after a rise in the number of HIV infections.
The Philippine police have been deployed to ensure that people who have tested positive for Corona virus and who cannot self-isolate themselves at home are transferred to state-run quarantine centers, which raised Wednesday's warnings of possible human rights violations.
India and Pakistan India
is preparing to re-impose a stone on about 140 million people in Bangalore and the poor state of Bihar.
India jumped to the third position in the world, surpassing Russia, where the number of injured exceeded 937 thousand.
The Indian Ministry of Health announced today, Wednesday, that 29,429 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours, and this is the largest figure recorded by India since the outbreak began.
The ministry added that 582 new deaths were recorded, taking the death toll from the virus to 24,309 cases.
In Pakistan, the authorities announced today, Wednesday, that 2165 new cases were recorded, bringing the total to 255,768 cases.
67 patients have died from the virus in the past 24 hours, which brings the death toll to 5,386 cases.
For its part, the Saudi Ministry of Health announced the registration of 2,671 confirmed new cases of the Corona virus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Kingdom to 240,474 infections.
Doctors kidnapped by Corona,
and the Iranian authorities announced today, Wednesday, that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the deaths of 140 nurses and doctors in the country, in addition to thousands of injuries among health team members since the outbreak of the Corona virus, stressing the need to adhere to health instructions.
"Five thousand of our doctors and nurses were infected with Covid-19, of whom 140 died," said Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Larry.
So far, injuries in Iran have reached more than 264,000, of whom 13,411 have died
The first signs of the vaccine
In this worrying environment, the American pharmaceutical company, Moderna, announced Tuesday that the clinical trials of its vaccine against the Covid-19 virus will enter the final stage on July 27.
The announcement puts Moderna at the forefront of the global race for an anti-epidemic vaccine.
The group, which benefits from $ 483 million in aid from the US government, is the first company to reach this stage, and its promising initial results have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In this third and final stage, clinical trials will be conducted in 30,000 people in the United States, half of whom will receive doses of 100 micrograms of the vaccine, while the other half will receive a placebo.
Researchers will follow up on these people for two years to see if the vaccine is safe and effective in preventing SARS-Cove-2 infection.
In turn, Russia announced that it had completed the first clinical trials of a pilot vaccine against the virus that has been tested in humans, to be fully completed by the end of this July.