Statistics: Two more countries with more than one million new crown cases! The epidemic has not slowed down...

　　China News Service, October 23. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 8:24 on October 23, Beijing time, the total number of confirmed cases of new crown worldwide exceeded 41.58 million, and the total number of deaths exceeded 1.13 million. .

The recent surge in cases of new crown infections in Europe has brought severe challenges to epidemic prevention and medical systems in various countries.

According to statistics, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in France and Spain has exceeded 1 million, becoming the sixth and seventh countries in the world with over 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19; the epidemic in the United States continues to spread, and the number of hospitalized patients in many places has surged. Experts say that it is impossible to see Any signs of a slowdown in the epidemic.

The picture shows the Rivoli Avenue in Paris, France during the curfew.

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　　Statistics: The number of confirmed new crowns in France and Spain exceeds 1 million

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　　Recently, the number of new crown infection cases in many European countries has surged.

According to statistics, the number of confirmed cases in Spain and France has exceeded 1 million, making Spain and France the sixth and seventh most severely affected countries in the world.

　　According to data released by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), Europe has notified more than 5 million infections and 200,000 deaths, and the number of new cases has surged since the end of September.

According to analysis, people in most parts of Europe, including larger countries such as France, Italy, Poland and Spain, are more likely to be hospitalized due to the new crown.

The picture shows pedestrians walking through the empty streets of Rome, Italy during the epidemic.

　　The spread of the epidemic has led to a great increase in the pressure of fighting the epidemic in many European countries, and the medical system is also facing severe challenges and even risk of paralysis.

To this end, Poland has converted its largest stadium into an emergency battlefield; Belgium has postponed all non-essential hospitalization procedures; Italy's Lombardy region has reopened temporary special intensive care units set up in Milan and Bergamo.

　　In order to contain the spread of the epidemic, French officials announced on the 22nd local time that the curfew area will be expanded to 54 provinces, involving 46 million people in France.

French Prime Minister Castel said that the next few weeks will be difficult.

If the virus is still spreading further, officials will consider adopting stricter control measures.

　　In addition, Greece also announced that it will implement a curfew in the areas most affected by the epidemic.

In Germany, with the tightening of the domestic epidemic situation, the officially announced high-risk areas are increasing.

As of the evening of the 22nd, German officials have defined major neighboring countries as high-risk areas.

Denmark also announced that from the 24th, German tourists will not be allowed to enter Denmark unless there is a need for visits.

On September 5, local time, citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area were shopping in a mall in San Mateo County.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan

India's epidemic may be more severe in winter

The US epidemic "sees no signs of slowing down"?

　　At present, the total number of confirmed cases of new crown in the United States has exceeded 8.4 million, and the total number of deaths has exceeded 220,000.

As the weather turns cooler, more people stay indoors, and there is a surge in new infections in many places.

According to statistics, the number of hospitalized patients with the new crown in the United States has increased by 40% in the past month and has now exceeded 40,000.

　　According to the US "New York Times", statistics show that in the past week, at least 14 states had more hospitalized patients with COVID-19 than at any time since the epidemic, and 7 states were approaching the peak.

From North Dakota to Kentucky, there are more critically ill patients in rural areas than ever before. Among them, the Midwest and Western mountainous areas are particularly severe due to the limited number of beds.

　　"I really don't see any signs of the epidemic slowing down, which makes me very worried," said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, "unless we force it (the epidemic) Slow it down, otherwise it will not slow down."

　　Jay Butler, deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in charge of infectious disease prevention and control, pointed out on the 21st that as the number of confirmed cases of the new crown continues to increase in 75% of the country, the United States is approaching a "critical stage" of the epidemic.

He said that the impact of the epidemic on their lives makes the people tired, and as the temperature drops and people gather indoor activities, the number of confirmed diagnoses in many places is increasing.

　　It is also reported that on the 22nd, US President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Biden will hold their final televised debate at Belmont University in Nashville.

Before the debate, both of them had been tested for the new coronavirus, and both were negative.

On July 21, 2020, local time, in Mumbai, India, a health volunteer from an NGO wearing protective clothing and a smart helmet equipped with a thermal scanning sensor checks the body temperature of residents from house to house in a residential area.

　　In the Asia-Pacific region, India is the most severely affected country, with more than 7.7 million confirmed cases.

With the arrival of winter, many medical experts in India expressed concern about the situation of the epidemic, saying that increased air pollution and successive holidays may worsen the epidemic.

The number of confirmed cases in South Korea currently exceeds 25,000, and cases related to elderly care facilities and gatherings of relatives and friends are still increasing.

　　In Australia, the health department of the State of Victoria said on the 21st that a newly diagnosed new crown patient was found to have been infected in July. It may be a second infection case. Experts are studying the situation.

The picture shows a ward of the United States Memorial Medical Center during the epidemic.

Remdesivir receives FDA approval to treat patients with new crown

British research says "plasma therapy" has limited effect

　　Around the antiviral drug Remdesivir, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on the 22nd that it approved it for the treatment of hospitalized patients with new crown.

However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has previously pointed out that Remdesivir has little effect on improving the mortality rate of hospitalized patients, nor can it help patients recover faster.

　　At the same time, in order to curb the spread of the epidemic, many countries around the world are speeding up the process of epidemic testing, while actively exploring effective new crown treatment methods.

Among them, whether the recovery period plasma can effectively reduce the number of deaths and serious complications of new crowns is becoming one of the focuses of researchers.

　　A study in the British Medical Journal to be published on the 23rd local time stated that the therapeutic effect of convalescent plasma is limited and cannot reduce the number of deaths from the new crown or prevent the development of the disease.

The study also suggests that injecting large amounts of donated plasma into patients may lead to a small increase in deaths.

　　The researchers said that consideration should be given not only to giving patients recovery plasma, but also to extract antibodies from the plasma for use.

It is said that this purified antibody has been used to treat patients with COVID-19.