Coronavirus infection in India has exceeded the one million mark, with 34,956 new infections recorded, and 687 deaths, the highest daily death toll from disease in the country, while cases in America have broken records.
In detail, the Indian Federal Ministry of Health stated yesterday that the total number of cases that have been registered since the start of the pandemic amounted to 100383232 cases, including 25 thousand and 602 deaths.
The number of people recovering from the disease reached 635 thousand and 756 people, representing 63.34% of the total injuries, and there are still 342 thousand and 473 active cases of the disease at the present time.
The casualty rate rose at its fastest pace since India began easing the closure in mid-May, including resuming operation of domestic transport, and reopening workplaces and markets.
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi urged the government to take concrete steps to prevent the spread of the Coruna virus, saying that if he continues to spread at the current pace, there will be more than two million cases by August 10.
India imposed the world's largest shutdown in late March, but was forced to change its strategy after the measure severely damaged the economy, making the poorest the most affected.
In light of the recent boom in cases, several areas, including the Information Technology Center in Bengaluru and the coastal state of Goa, announced new closings and restrictions.
At the same time, hospitals in some cities refused to receive patients in a serious condition due to a lack of family and medical personnel.
Indian officials stress that prolonged closures have kept mortality rates low, and they point to effective clinical management and less severe cases in India.
However, experts and critics question the official figures, noting the low level of registration of deaths associated with Covid-19.
The western state of Maharashtra, with its financial capital Mumbai, is the hardest hit in India, with 284,281 injuries and 11,194 deaths.
The capital, New Delhi, is also among the hotbeds of the pandemic, although infections have shown a decrease in the past few days.
This comes at a time when the United States recorded 75,000 new cases of Covid-19, the day before yesterday, which is a record daily increase for the seventh time this month, according to a Reuters statistic.
American deaths due to coronavirus disease are also increasing and have recently reached their highest levels since early June in states led by Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, according to the statistic.
And 30 of the fifty US states recorded record increases in the number of infections within one day this month, and infections are increasing in nearly all states, according to a Reuters analysis of cases in the past two weeks compared to the previous two weeks.
If Florida were a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world in terms of the largest number of new cases in a single day, after the United States, Brazil, and India, according to a Reuters analysis.
The number of new infections reached 75,255 cases, which exceeds the previous record recorded last Friday, when the cases increased by 69070 cases. In June, cases increased by 28,000 per day on average, according to Reuters statistics, and in July, the increase was 57,625 per day on average.
The chief government expert on communicable diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauchi, warned that the number of cases could exceed 100,000 a day soon if Americans did not unite to take steps to stop the spread of the virus.
Yesterday, for the second consecutive day, Tokyo witnessed a new record in the daily cases of the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), as it recorded 293 cases compared to 286 cases.
This rise in daily HIV cases comes in light of the growing concern about the ability of the authorities to stop the epidemic.
While Hong Kong and Australia have tightened restrictions on citizens ’activities as a result of the increase in the number of casualties, officials in Japan have made clear that there is no need to take similar measures now.
Even as the incidence of coronas across the country approaches peak levels, Japanese authorities continue to emphasize the differences between the current surge in casualty numbers and those recorded in April when the Japanese government declared a state of emergency, Bloomberg News reports.
"Covid 19" imposes its laws on the top of the European Union
In an important test of global diplomacy at the time of "Covid-19", European Union leaders met face-to-face in Brussels yesterday, where they chose to salute each other by touching their facilities.
The 27 European heads of state and government met in a direct meeting for the first time since countries around the world imposed in March closure measures to contain the spread of the virus.
The European Union insisted that the summit could be described as the cleanest of all. Pictures on Twitter showed employees wiping the conference room with napkins and high-pressure sprays. Other photos showed the workers constantly cleaning their hands.
The leaders entered the summit hall of the Europa building, where they were greeted by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, with a small bow and a touch of an elbow.
They put up masks during the reception in front of the cameras, saluting their counterparts who had not met them as a group since February.
Some, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, have put a muzzle of the common type that can be found in local pharmacies.
Others, such as Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Petel and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov, preferred to place customized masks bearing their national flags or emblems. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, whose country will take over the rotating presidency of the bloc later in Germany within six months, provided a luxurious box of masks for each of his counterparts decorated with the flags of their countries.
Some of the compliments that have always been printed on the summits of the bloc countries remained the same. German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated her 66th birthday yesterday. Brussels ■ AFP
- If Florida was a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world in terms of new cases in one day.