The new Corona virus has resulted in the deaths of at least 701,112 people worldwide, according to official sources yesterday, and according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past two weeks, an average of 5,900 people die every 24 hours every 24 hours, according to official sources. As a result of the injury, that means 247 people die every hour or one person every 15 seconds.
While more than 18 million and 572 thousand and 720 people have contracted the disease since the beginning of the epidemic, while 10 million and 917 thousand and 200 people have recovered, at least.
These figures only reflect a small portion of the actual number of people infected, as some countries only carry out severe cases, while others prioritize the tests to track infections. Also, many poor countries have limited testing capacity.
A statistic revealed to "Reuters" that the total deaths from infection with the Corona virus exceeded 700 thousand people worldwide, yesterday, and the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico were among the highest countries recording the deaths.
The US President, Donald Trump, said that the outbreak of the Corona virus was under control in the United States, where the number of deaths exceeded 155,000 people, in light of an unorganized response to a public health crisis that was unable to limit the rise in the number of cases.
"They are dying, that's right," Trump said in an interview with the Axios news site. The situation is really so, but that does not mean that we are not doing everything we can. "It's under control as best as possible. It's a terrible pandemic."
In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic and opposed closures despite his HIV infection and a number of his cabinet ministers.
The pandemic has reached Latin America more slowly than the rest of the world. But officials have been struggling to control the virus since it spread there, in poverty and crowded cities, in a region of around 640 million people.
Countries in other parts of the world, where the spread of the virus appears to have been curbed, recorded record daily increases in new cases, indicating that the battle is not over. Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Uzbekistan and Israel have recorded record highs in recent cases.
And Australia announced a record number of new deaths yesterday, taking the total toll there to 247.
Officials in the Japanese capital government, Tokyo, confirmed 263 new cases of the Corona virus yesterday, according to the Japanese Radio and Television Corporation (NHK) yesterday.
Daily hit numbers in Tokyo exceeded the 200 mark for the ninth day in a row.
The total number of injuries in Tokyo reached 14,285.
On Monday, the Tokyo government began demanding that all institutions that offer alcoholic drinks and all karaoke halls close their doors at ten in the evening daily, until the end of this month.
It also called on citizens to avoid large gatherings.
A report released by British lawmakers said yesterday that their country’s government made “fatal mistakes” in its decisions regarding border measures during the first days of the Corona virus pandemic.
The House of Commons internal affairs committee listed a series of failures, and made recommendations in the report on the government's handling of the crisis.
Lawmakers said the government was "slow to recognize the increased risk of an outbreak compared to other European countries, especially Spain."
The committee criticized the government's decision to lift the guidelines for self-isolation from certain countries in March for a period of three months, at a time when other countries were taking stronger border measures.
"With more robust early procedures, the outbreak was likely to slow," the commission said.
The committee also criticized the lack of transparency regarding border decisions, especially the sudden return of the rules of self-isolation of travelers from Spain on July 25.
"There should be major changes in the way these decisions are dealt with," the lawmakers wrote.
Yesterday, South Korean health authorities confirmed that six people who participated in Eid al-Adha prayers in Chungju, southeast of Seoul, had been infected with "corona".
The South Korean Yonhap News Agency noted that it is known that about 340 foreigners residing in South Korea attended this Islamic religious gathering organized by the Islamic Cultural Center in Chungju City, which raises fears of the spread of Corona virus on a large scale in society.
The health authorities explained that the six injured were Uzbeks.
The attendees participated in the prayer after they registered their names in the visitor's book and were subjected to measuring temperature and wore face masks, but they ate together after the prayer, which raised the concerns of the health authorities.
The authorities stated that they believed that the attendees did not adhere to such rules as keeping a distance of two meters, and were stripped of face gags while eating. The authorities plan to subject all participants to Corona tests.
• South Korea's fears of collective injuries after it was discovered that people had performed Eid al-Adha prayers.