One out of every 66 people in the United States is infected with the virus
America sets a record, with "Covid-19" injuries exceeding 5 million
Health workers on an ambulance boat in a village in Brazil. A.F.B.
A Reuters statistics showed that the United States has recorded a record number of new cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19), with the total number of virus infections so far exceeding five million cases, with one out of every 66 people infected with the virus, and the country has registered More than 160,000 deaths.
The United States surpassed the five million mark, at a time when US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at providing economic aid to Americans affected by the Corona epidemic, after the White House failed to reach an agreement with Congress in this regard.
And aggregate data of Coronavirus cases showed that the number of infections worldwide had exceeded 19.6 million as of yesterday. The data available on the American Johns Hopkins University website stated that the number of people recovering is close to 12 million, while the number of deaths exceeded 726,000.
The United States leads the world in terms of the number of cases, followed by Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Iran, Spain and the United Kingdom, and the United States leads the world in terms of the number of deaths, followed by Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, India, Italy and France.
The death toll from the "Covid-19" epidemic exceeded 100 thousand in Brazil, the second country most affected by the spread of the virus in the world, and the largest country in Latin America, with a population of 212 million, has also crossed another symbolic threshold, which is the number of infections that exceeded three million. The official figures in Brazil do not reflect the reality due to insufficient testing.
In the last seven days, Latin America has recorded the death of one in two people who died from the virus in the world, and Latin America has become the region most affected by the epidemic, with more than 216 thousand deaths.
A heat wave struck part of northern Europe, where temperatures rose to 35 degrees Celsius, and the authorities are trying to make people respect the wearing of masks and prevent residents from gathering in parks and on the beaches. The epidemic has killed more than 213,000 people on the continent, and shows worrying signs of a new outbreak.
In Belgium, several people were arrested during riots that occurred after an order was issued to evacuate a beach in the beach resort of Blankenberge, and media outlets that showed scenes of people throwing umbrellas at the police reported that the riots were started by a group of young men who were asked to respect the preventive measures.
In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany too, crowds gathered on beaches, most of them ignoring the physical distance. Local authorities have warned that some beaches in northern Germany, as well as several lakes, should be closed due to the impossibility of respecting the safe distance of one and a half meters between people.
“The parks, lakes, beaches and swimming pools are very crowded,” Berlin police wrote in a tweet on the social networking site “Twitter”. Stay calm, respect safe distances, and wear masks when you are unable to avoid being near others. ”
And in Iran, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that the total number of Corona injuries in the country exceeded 326 thousand cases, after 2020 new cases were recorded.
The spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, Sima Sadat Lari, stated that the total number of deaths due to infection with the Coronavirus in the country rose to 18,427 cases, after 163 new deaths were recorded during the past twenty-four hours.
She pointed out that 4,022 of the injured are in critical health, and that the number of people recovering has exceeded 284,000.
After an initial decrease in the number of infections in mid-May, Iran relaxed the measures it had imposed to prevent the spread of the Corona virus and reopened the economy again, which experts believe has led to a significant increase in cases of infection later.
Health Ministry officials say the measures taken by the Iranian government to ease the lockdown have caused citizens to stop taking the disease seriously, which in turn led to a significant rise in the number of deaths and injuries.
In China, the National Health Committee announced yesterday that it had received reports of 23 new confirmed cases of the virus on the Chinese mainland, including 15 local cases.
"All local cases have been reported in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China," Xinhua news agency quoted the commission as saying.
The total number of confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland reached 84,619, while 817 patients are still receiving treatment, 43 of whom are in serious condition. The commission said that a total of 79,168 people were discharged from hospitals after recovering, and 4,634 people died of disease on the Chinese mainland.
• A heat wave in Europe is pushing people to beaches without a commitment to distance and preventive measures.
• 19.6 million cases of "Corona" worldwide, and the number of people recovering is close to 12 million.
• 726 thousand deaths from the "virus" worldwide.