(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Infects New Crown Israel or Faces a New Wave of Epidemic

　　China News Agency, Beijing, June 20. Comprehensive news: According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, as of 11:12 on the 20th, there were 538,944,868 confirmed cases and 6,318,598 deaths worldwide.

Americas: More than 15,000 new confirmed cases in the United States

　　According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of 17:20 EST on the 19th, there were 15,119 new confirmed cases in the United States in the past 24 hours, with a total of 86,246,101 cases; 36 new deaths, a total of 1,013,413 cases.

　　According to a new report from the Associated Press, New York City is working to give New York City workers who were laid off earlier this year for not being vaccinated against the new crown a chance to return to their jobs, provided they are fully vaccinated against the new crown.

Data map: A new coronavirus testing station on 14th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA tests residents.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

Europe: Russian experts say trials of new crown vaccine that can prevent multiple strains are progressing well

　　The Russian Satellite News Agency quoted the Russian epidemic prevention department on the 19th as saying that in the past 24 hours, there were 3,081 new confirmed cases and 62 deaths nationwide.

Alexander? Director of the Russian Gamaleya State Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology?

Ginzburg said in an interview that trials of a virus-like particle-based coronavirus vaccine are going well.

The vaccine will protect against multiple variants of the new coronavirus at the same time.

Dozens of people have been vaccinated with the vaccine, with no obvious side effects.

Asia: Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat contracted coronavirus

　　According to "Lianhe Zaobao" on the 20th, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Economic Minister Heng Swee Keat, who was visiting Germany, tested positive for the new crown virus.

Wang Ruijie posted on his social media account on the 19th that although he wore a mask throughout the whole process and avoided crowded areas, he tested positive for the new crown virus on the 18th.

There is currently a sore throat, but because of the new crown vaccine and booster shots, the overall symptoms are not serious.

　　Not long ago, Wang Ruijie made his first long-distance visit after the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

He first visited England and then Germany.

According to the original plan, he will go to Munich after his trip in Berlin, and then to Zurich, Switzerland.

Due to the quarantine, he can no longer carry out the follow-up trip as originally planned.

He may return to Singapore after testing negative for Covid-19.

　　As of noon on the 19th, Singapore had a total of 1,367,761 confirmed cases and 1,403 deaths.

　　According to Israel's "Jerusalem Post" report, on the 19th local time, Nachman Ash, director general of the Israeli Ministry of Health, said that Israel is at the beginning of a new wave of the new crown epidemic.

　　According to reports, Israel reported more than 7,000 new confirmed cases on the 17th.

The Israeli Ministry of Health has confirmed that the number of infections in the country has increased significantly, as have the number of critically ill patients and hospitalizations.

Israel reported a total of 4,931 confirmed cases on the 18th, with a positive test rate of about 40%.

Severe cases increased to 158, a 125% increase from the previous week.

　　Nachman Ash pointed out that in the early stages of the new wave, the Ministry of Health does not intend to impose broad restrictions on large gatherings as before.

However, the Ministry of Health is considering reintroducing the mask-wearing rule in enclosed public spaces.

　　According to data released by the Indian Ministry of Health on the 20th, in the past 24 hours, there were 12,781 new confirmed cases in the country, with a total of 43,309,473 cases; 18 new deaths, a total of 524,873 cases.

Maharashtra and Kerala are the regions with the highest number of newly confirmed cases.

This is also the fifth day in a row that the number of new cases in a single day in India has exceeded 12,000.

　　According to the "Hindustan Times", India's current test positive rate is 4.32%, which has risen to more than 4% after 130 days.

　　Malaysia's Health Minister Khairi tweeted on the 19th that today is the first day since December 18, 2020, that Malaysia has not reported any deaths.

　　According to the report of the Central Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters of South Korea on the 20th, as of 0:00 that day, 3,538 new confirmed cases had been confirmed in South Korea compared with 0:00 of the previous day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 18.28 million; 10 new deaths were added, and the cumulative number reached 24,451.

Based on the notification date, this is the lowest number of newly confirmed cases in a single day since January 10 this year after a 23-week interval, and also the lowest number of newly confirmed cases in a single day in South Korea since the spread of the Omicron virus strain. value.

　Oceania and Africa: Australia's daily death toll slowly rises

　　Adrian Esterman, a former WHO epidemiologist, posted on his Twitter account on the 20th that the number of single-day deaths from the new crown in Australia has been slowly increasing over the past two months.

Australia could see an average of about 50 deaths a day by the end of next month.

　　The Australian Broadcasting Corporation website published an article on the 20th that thousands of Australians may suffer from "long-term new crowns", but officials have not systematically monitored this situation.

　　On June 20, local time, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Talat posted on his social media account that he tested positive for the new crown that day, accompanied by "mild symptoms".

He is currently isolating at home and working remotely.

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