The number of people infected with the new Corona virus "Covid-19" is approaching 48 million infected globally, and at a time when the number of infections in France exceeded 1.5 million, isolation procedures are accelerating in several European countries.

According to the "World Meter" website, which specializes in monitoring figures and statistics related to the virus in the countries of the world, the number of infected people reached 47 million and 986 thousand and 897 infected people at 16:00 Mecca time (13:00 GMT).

The number of people recovering, according to the same site, reached 34 million and 432 thousand and 40 people, while the number of deaths reached 1 million 222 thousand and 759 people.

In the United States, the first country with the number of injuries and deaths, the number of injuries reached 9 million 994 thousand and 176 injured, while the number of deaths reached 238,656 people.

COVID-19 patients unit at a hospital in New Delhi (Reuters)

Retreat .. rise

In India, the number of injuries reached 8 million and 316 thousand and 588 injuries, making it second, at a time when the number of deaths reached 123,677 deaths.

During the past 24 hours, more than 46,000 new infections were recorded. NDTV reported that daily cases of HIV infection increased by 20%, approaching the weekly average of 45,000, after it fell to about 38,000 yesterday, Monday. .

In Brazil, the third country in terms of the number of injuries, and the second in terms of the number of deaths, the number of injuries reached 5 million and 567 thousand and 126 injuries, while the number of deaths exceeded 160,584 deaths.

France records an acceleration in the number of injuries (Anatolia)

Rapid spread

In France, which ranks fifth in the world and first in Europe in terms of the number of infections, the number of people infected with the epidemic exceeded the one and a half million infections, and the number of deaths reached 38,289 deaths.

In the past 24 hours, this country recorded 854 deaths, the highest number since April 15.

At the level of the old continent, the spread of the virus accelerated, as more than 11 million infections were counted, half of which were distributed between France, Spain, Britain and Russia, which recorded a record number of injuries and deaths on Wednesday.

In Italy - which is still under the impact of the shock of the first wave of infections in the spring - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at night signed a decree imposing a curfew throughout the country from Thursday.

Transportation will be banned between 10:00 PM (21:00 GMT) and 5:00 AM, until December 3.

Secondary schools will be closed, and commercial centers will be closed on weekends.

The twenty regions will be divided into green, orange and red based on the severity of the epidemiological situation in them, and varying restrictions will be imposed in each of them.

Portugal imposed a new isolation (Reuters)

Actions .. Isolation

In England, until the second of December, non-essential stores should close, and only restaurants, bars and cafes will be allowed to provide food delivery or delivery services for customers to carry with them without the ability to sit down.

Schools will remain open in the worst-affected country in Europe, with nearly 47,000 deaths.

In Portugal, the bulk of the country entered Wednesday into a new lockdown, less stringent than the one imposed in the spring, but the government may soon impose stricter measures.

The isolation covers nearly 70% of the population of about 10 million, and will remain in effect for at least two weeks.

Telework has become mandatory, but schools will remain open, and so will shops and restaurants that close their doors early.

In the Netherlands, restrictions have tightened, with museums, cinemas, zoos and other places receiving an audience closed for two weeks.

And Austria - which witnessed an attack by an extremist that resulted in 4 deaths on Monday evening - imposed a night curfew, and meetings for members of two families will be limited.

In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban imposed a state of emergency again, allowing him to rule by decree, expressing his fear that hospitals will be overcrowded by mid-December.

For his part, Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that his country is "preparing for the worst case scenario."

With a curfew imposed between midnight and 5 in the morning since October 22, new restrictions went into effect Tuesday across the country.

The University of Oxford hopes to present the results of the last phase of trials of its candidate vaccine to prevent Covid-19 this year (Reuters)

Numbers .. hopes

East Asia, the Philippine Ministry of Health announced the registration of 987 new cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours.

And Bloomberg News Agency reported that Health Ministry data showed that this is the first time that the Philippines has recorded a daily death toll of less than a thousand, since last July 14.

And the authorities warned that the recent hurricane that struck the country may have negatively affected the process of collecting data on casualties.

In Iran, the Ministry of Health reported 419 deaths and 8,452 new cases of Corona, announcing that the total number of HIV infections increased to more than 664,000.

With regard to vaccines, Oxford University hopes to present the results of the last phase of trials of its candidate vaccine to prevent Covid-19 disease this year, which increases hopes that Britain will be able to start distributing a successful vaccine in late December or early 2011.

"I am optimistic that we can reach this stage before the end of this year," Andrew Pollard, chief vaccine researcher in Oxford, told British representatives, speaking of presenting the results of the trials this year.