Yesterday, China announced the highest incidence of newly infected Coronavirus (Covid-19) in three months, coinciding with the acceleration of the epidemic within the framework of the second and third waves in Asia and Europe. Australia has also witnessed the highest death toll since the outbreak began, and infections in Spain have increased three times in the past two weeks.
China recorded 61 new cases, yesterday, in the highest daily toll since last April, after the appearance of foci of infection in three regions, which raised fears of a new wave.
Of the infections, 41 were counted in the northwestern Xinjiang region, where since mid-July an outbreak of the virus has been recorded in Urumqi, the region's capital, the National Health Commission said. Fourteen cases were also counted in Liaoning (northeast). The outbreak of the virus is currently registered in the coastal city of Dalian, which since the end of last week has hosted half of the national football championship matches. As for the region of Jilin (northeast), adjacent to North Korea, it announced two local cases.
The Chinese authorities launched a second program of intensive testing in Urumqi, which has 3.5 million people, to re-examine the previously negative population, while 2.3 million people were examined as of yesterday.
The Chinese authorities also conducted comprehensive tests of hundreds of thousands of people in Dalian, where a new focus appeared last week.
In turn, Australia recorded the worst death toll since the start of the epidemic with 10 deaths, the high number of injuries, despite efforts to re-close some public places, and recorded the highest number of daily injuries with 549 cases, to exceed the record recorded last Wednesday, which amounted to 501 cases, While some states still have to send their official numbers.
Victoria State Prime Minister Daniel Andrews, where the epidemic is spreading, urged every sick person to stay at home.
In Hong Kong, which seemed to dominate the spread of local cases for weeks, a significant increase in the number of infections, which raised fears of the outbreak of control of the epidemic. More than 1,000 people have been confirmed infected since early July, more than 40% of the total toll recorded since the virus began to appear in the city in late January, and 18 people have died from the epidemic.
Hong Kong has announced that it will prevent most ships from changing their crews in the densely populated city from tomorrow, to ease quarantine exemptions that many attribute to causing a third wave of injuries.
Yesterday, the Indian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 49,931 new cases of coronavirus within 24 hours, bringing the total cases of the virus to one million, 436 thousand and 19 cases. The network «NDTV» reported that the ministry announced the registration of 708 deaths from the virus, bringing the total deaths of the virus 32 thousand and 771 cases.
In Spain, where more than 28,400 people have died from the epidemic, there has been a recent surge in injuries with about 1,000 cases last Thursday and Friday, despite the government's insistence that the country is safe for visitors and not witness a second wave.
Latin America and the Caribbean has become the most region in the world where "Covid-19" cases have been recorded since the start of the epidemic, accounting for four million and 340 thousand and 214 injuries, according to a census conducted by Agence France Press, according to official sources.
This is the first time that the number of casualties in this region exceeds the number of injuries in North America, which accounted for four million and 330 thousand and 989 injuries, mostly in the United States (4.2 million injuries and about 150 thousand deaths).
In Latin America, Brazil is the most affected country, with two million 394 thousand and 513 injuries, 86 thousand and 449 deaths. An increase in infections was observed in Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina, countries trying to relaunch their economic activities in an effort to reduce the impact of the pandemic.
As for the number of deaths, Europe remains in the lead with 207 thousand 933 deaths, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (182 thousand and 726 deaths), and the United States and Canada (155 thousand and 673 deaths).
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A thousand infections, and 708 HIV deaths in India within 24 hours.