For the second day, Russia records more than 5,000 new cases of the virus

4 million Corona cases in India ... and the deaths in the world amount to 875,717

A woman undergoes a corona test in Kashmir.

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India has become the third country in the world to cross the threshold of four million new infections with the new Corona virus, after recording a new record yesterday, the day after the World Health Organization announced that it did not expect large-scale vaccination campaigns against the disease before the middle of 2021. This comes, while Corona infections arrived »In the world to 26.6 million and 875,717 deaths, as Russia alone recorded for the second day more than 5,000 new cases of the virus.

In detail, India has become the third country in the world to cross the threshold of four million infection with the new Corona virus, after a new record was counted yesterday, in the country in which the epidemic does not seem to recede.

And India recorded four million 23 thousand and 179 injuries, including 86,432 new injuries yesterday.

India is closely followed by the United States and Brazil.

As the government loosens restrictions, India is now the country with an exponential increase in cases with more than 80,000 infections daily, and the highest daily death toll of more than 1,000.

In just 13 days, the number of infections in the second most populous country increased from three to four million, faster than the United States or Brazil.

The epidemic is now spreading in rural areas that suffer from insufficient health infrastructure, and it is spreading in major cities such as New Delhi and Bombay.

Shamika Ravi, a professor of economics and a former government advisor who closely followed the indications of the epidemic in India, said that the country is "still far" from reaching its peak and that Maharashtra will become the "center" of the campaign against the emerging corona virus.

This comes, with the World Health Organization announcing the day before yesterday, that it does not expect large-scale vaccination campaigns against the emerging corona virus before mid-2021.

"A large number of experimental vaccines are now entering the third phase of trials," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a press conference in Geneva.

We know of at least six to nine experimental vaccines that have already come a long way in the research stages. ”

"The World Health Organization will not endorse an ineffective and unsafe vaccine," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a virtual briefing.

On the other hand, the organization recommended “the use of corticosteroids in people with severe symptoms of (Covid-19) or for those in critical condition,” in light of studies that show that these drugs reduce mortality rates according to guidelines published Friday in the BMG Medical Journal. .

In Russia, about a month after the authorities announced that they had reached a vaccine against the new Corona, researchers published a study showing that the Sputnik-V vaccine gives encouraging initial results.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases of the emerging corona virus has reached 26 million and 623 thousand and 562 cases around the world, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.

The disease caused by the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) has caused the death of 875,717 people, according to official sources.

The United States is the country most affected by the number of deaths and injuries, with 187,777 deaths out of 6,202,053 injuries, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.

The confirmed cases of the new Corona virus in the United States increased by 0.8% compared to the same time Friday, to reach 6.2 million cases yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.

The increase in injuries at the national level was higher than the average daily increase over the past week, which is 0.7%.

The state of California recorded the largest number of confirmed cases so far, with a total of 731,831 cases registered.

The number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Brazil reached 4.09 million yesterday, and data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News indicated that the number of deaths in Brazil as a result of the virus has reached 125,502 cases and 3.46 million of the infected have recovered so far.

The daily death toll from the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Russia for the second consecutive day exceeded 5,000, as the infection control operation room announced yesterday that 5,205 new infections had been recorded during the past 24 hours, compared to 5,110 the previous day.

Switzerland, for its part, recorded more than 400 new cases of the virus within 24 hours for the first time since mid-April.

The majority of these injured persons are less than 40 years old.

Pakistan recorded 513 cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, which brought the total number of cases to 298 thousand and 25 cases, according to the Pakistani newspaper "The Nation" yesterday, citing the latest figures issued by the National Command and Operations Center.

Pakistan also recorded five deaths in the past 24 hours as well, bringing the total number of deaths to 6,340.

Yesterday, official data in Indonesia showed an increase in the number of daily new infections with the Coronavirus by more than 3,000, for the fourth consecutive day, as cases increased in all regions of the country.

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