Today, China recorded the highest death toll from the new Coronavirus without symptoms in about 7 months, while a French health official stated that the country had lost control of the pandemic, and Russia recorded record daily infections, the highest since the outbreak of the disease.
On Sunday, the Chinese health authorities monitored an outbreak of Corona infection in a garment factory in the Xinjiang region (northwest of the country), during a campaign to examine more than 4.5 million people that began after reporting the day before yesterday, Saturday, that a 17-year-old girl working in the factory was injured without being She is showing symptoms of the disease, and more than 2.84 million people have been examined until noon yesterday, Sunday, and the process is expected to be completed tomorrow, Tuesday.
The total number of confirmed infections in China so far is 85,810 cases, including 4,634 deaths.
The virus appeared last year in Wuhan, central China.
But the Beijing authorities did not officially inform the outbreak of the disease until last January, before it was transmitted to various countries of the world within weeks.
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in France, said Eric Comis, head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at the Petit Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, “We have lost control of the epidemic,” in an interview with French radio, and France recorded, yesterday, more than 52 thousand new cases of the virus, The country ranks fifth in the world among the largest hotspots of the virus, as it recorded more than one million and 138 thousand infections, and more than 34 thousand and 761 deaths as of this afternoon.
A doctor examines a Corona patient in a hospital in the French city of Vanni (Reuters)
The head of the government advisory body for virus control, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, warned that the second wave of the Corona pandemic could be stronger than the first, and Delfraissy, a medical advisor to the French government, added today in radio statements that there may be 100 thousand new cases of "Covid-" 19 ″ in France daily; more than double the latest figures reported.
The French official proposed the idea of asylum to re-impose a complete local lockdown, or to extend the partial curfew, which starts from 9 in the evening until 6 in the morning, and was imposed in half of the French provinces.
And in Russia, the Coronavirus Infection Control Center said today, that the country recorded 17,347 cases of corona during the last 24 hours, which is the highest daily death toll since the beginning of the outbreak of the pandemic, and the center indicated that the number of people recovered rose to one million and 146 thousand and 96, after recording 7 Thousands and 574 new recoveries.
As of today noon, the number of Corona patients in the world has exceeded 43 million and 379 thousand, of whom more than one million and 159 thousand have died, and more than 31 million and 920 thousand have recovered, according to the website Walad Mitter, which closely follows the epidemiological situation in the world.
On the other hand, the Australian authorities announced today that they will lift the lockdown measures imposed on Melbourne, the second largest city in the country, after 4 months of strict restrictions, as no new injuries or deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours.
This was the first 24 hours during which Melbourne or the state of Victoria in general had not recorded any cases of Covid-19 since last June 8, before security failures in quarantine hotels, where travelers who returned from abroad were staying, led to a large outbreak of the virus in July. the past.
Australia has been relatively successful in containing the virus, as it recorded nearly 27,500 cases and 905 deaths among its population of 25 million.
British vaccine
In Britain, the pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, said today that the Corona virus vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, stimulates a similar immune response in both the elderly and the youth, and a company spokesperson told Reuters, "It is promising to see that the immune response It was similar in the elderly and the young, and the negative response was less in the elderly, where the severity of Covid-19 disease is higher.
The Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to be the first vaccine from the major pharmaceutical companies to receive approval from regulatory bodies in Britain, in addition to a candidate vaccine from Pfizer and Biontech.