Yesterday, a limited group began the Hajj rituals in Makkah Al-Mukarramah amid strict health measures, while the United States recorded the highest number of daily deaths, linked to the emerging coronavirus, recorded two months ago with about 1,600 deaths.
For its part, Europe fears a second wave of the emerging Corona virus, which has killed about 660,000 people worldwide.
Yesterday, between 1,000 and 10,000 Muslims began the Hajj rituals, which continue over five days, compared to the 2.5 million Muslims who attended last year.
After a selection process by the authorities, the pilgrims began circumambulating the Kaaba, wearing masks, and leaving a distance between one and the other.
The difference between these small groups and the crowd that he witnessed every year seemed to be vast.
The new Corona virus has killed 659,957 people, at least all over the world, according to the latest census conducted by Agence France-Presse yesterday.
The United States remains the country worst hit by the number of deaths, with 149,000 deaths, including 1592, within 24 hours on Tuesday, the highest daily death toll in two and a half months, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The number of injuries reached more than 60,000 new infections confirmed in one day, after a slight decrease during the previous two days.
After adopting, in the past few days, a more serious and sobering speech to warn of the dangers of the "Coffid-19" epidemic, calling for a muzzle, the US President, Donald Trump, again reversed the trend and returned to publish misleading medical information.
Yesterday, China recorded 101 new cases of the emerging coronavirus, the highest rate for one day in three months, with gyms, bars and museums closing in the main hot spots.
In Hong Kong, the chief executive officer, Carey Lam, warned yesterday that the city is about to see a "large-scale" epidemic, as social spacing measures have begun to be the most severe since the appearance of the Coruna virus early in the year.
As of yesterday, the city's 7.5 million residents will have to put gags in public places, while restaurants are no longer allowed to serve only the delivery of food by handing it abroad.
No more than two people were allowed to gather, with the exception of families.
Spain has seen its number of new infections more than triple in the past two weeks, to over 1,800. Germany, after France and Britain, has recommended its nationals not to travel there.
For his part, French Health Minister Olivier Ferrand confirmed yesterday that his country "is not witnessing a second wave of the new Corona virus," noting that "we should not be complacent," if we want to avoid it.
In Mumbai, a study conducted by the Indian city, published yesterday, stated that more than half of the residents of the slums in the city were infected with Corona virus, or carrying antibodies.
In the context of experiments to find a vaccine, the American pharmaceutical company «Moderna», in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health, announced promising results for the monkeys.
The two groups: French Sanofi and British GlaxoSmithKline, have pledged to provide the British government with 60 million doses of a vaccine, which they are preparing against "Covid-19", while global competition is raging for precious doses.
• 101 new infections recorded by China, the highest rate in one day, for three months.