The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned today that the world may be tired of facing the emerging Corona virus, but the pandemic has not bored the world, while the United States has become the first country in the world in which the number of infected exceeds 10 million, and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined today List of world leaders infected with the emerging disease.
Ghebreyesus - quarantined because of his contact with someone infected with the virus - said during the annual General Assembly of the World Health Organization in Geneva that it is vital for people to rely on the advice provided by science, and not to deviate from the virus.
The Director-General of the Health Organization warned that the virus - which first appeared in China at the end of 2019 - is exploiting vulnerability, and he said, "The disease exploits people who suffer from poor health, but not only this, but also exploits inequality, division and ignorance."
Ghebreyesus added that it is not possible to negotiate with the pandemic, and she does not care about political rhetoric or conspiracy theories, considering that the only hope is science, solutions and solidarity.
The same official welcomed the election of Americans Joe Biden as president, expressing the hope that his election indicates closer global cooperation to fight the pandemic.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization came after the virus killed more than 1.25 million people in the world, and infected 50 million others around the world.
As of 9 November, a total of 3,363,473 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the Eastern Mediterranean since the start of the outbreak.
Two countries from the region were among the twenty countries with the highest registration of new cases in the world.
Iran is in tenth place and Morocco in twentieth place.
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America's status
According to a Reuters statistics, the United States is the first country in the world to exceed 10 million HIV infections, with the third wave of the disease sweeping across the country.
America has recorded about one million HIV infections in the past ten days, at the highest rate of infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, as the health authorities counted on Saturday alone more than 131,000 new infections.
Reuters analysis indicates that the deaths recorded in the United States rose more than a thousand cases for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday, a level last recorded in mid-August.
In a related context, President-elect Biden announced today the formation of an advisory council consisting of 12 members to confront the Corona pandemic, and the team will be tasked with developing a plan to contain the disease that will be implemented as soon as Biden takes office officially on January 20.
Also, the American company "Pfizer" and "BioNTech" German announced today that their experimental anti-virus vaccine recorded an effective rate of 90% in the third phase of the currently ongoing clinical trial, which is the last before obtaining a license from the regulatory authorities in the states. United.
The two companies expected to provide 50 million doses of the vaccine at the end of this year, before reaching 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
The Ukrainian president will continue to perform his work remotely after he was infected with the Corona virus (European)
The President of Ukraine
In Europe, the Presidential Office in Ukraine said today that President Volodymyr Zelensky was infected with the Corona virus, adding that he is in good condition, and will continue to perform his duties remotely under self-isolation.
Last month, a number of world leaders were infected with the virus, most notably US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
On the other hand, Portugal imposed from today a health emergency accompanied by a curfew in the largest part of the country, and Prime Minister Antonio Costa said that "the only way to control the pandemic is to avoid social contact."
Portugal, like all parts of Europe, is witnessing a worrying increase in injuries, with its daily rate increasing since early October from 2,000 to 6,000.
Today, Romania imposed a curfew during the night, with the need to wear masks abroad and ban public and private celebrations, at a time when the country is close to recording 10 thousand new daily injuries.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced a partial closure from tomorrow, Wednesday, according to which gatherings will be banned, restaurants will be closed and cultural events canceled, while the curfew will take effect from eight until five in the morning.