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The planet this Thursday exceeded the threshold of 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus, amid tensions in the race to get a vaccine and renewed attacks by US President Donald Trump against China.
In the middle of the electoral year, Trump assured in a television interview that he does not rule out “breaking all relations” with China, which he accuses of hiding key details of the coronavirus outbreak in December, which he believed could have prevented the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
“Right now I don’t want to talk to him,” Trump said, referring to President Xi Jinping.
“There are many things that we could do. We could cut off any relationship ”with Beijing, he added.
The United States, the most affected country in the world with more than 85,000 deaths, It had previously accused China of trying to spy on its investigators dedicated to fighting the new coronavirus.
According to an AFP balance based on official data, the global balance of the pandemic at 20:30 GMT (16:30 hours in Chile) this Thursday was 300,140 deaths and 4,403,714 cases of contagion.
The world has embarked with great apprehension and nerves on the path of lack of confidence and the most affected countries fear above all a second wave of infections.
All countries dream of a vaccine to end the pandemic.
The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi He sparked outrage by announcing that if he found the vaccine he would first distribute it in the United States, whose government went ahead and associated with the costly and risky investigations.
“The efforts made in recent months show the need for this vaccine to be a global public good, outside the laws of the market,” protested the French President, Emmanuel Macron.
“The virus is a global virus,” added the European Commission.
“The goal is for this vaccine to be available at the same time in the United States, France and Europe in the same way,” said the director of Sanofi in France, Olivier Bogillot.
But, in practice, it will only be possible “if Europeans work as fast as Americans,” added Bogillot.
Currently, there are more than 100 projects and a dozen clinical trials are being carried out.
“It may never go away”
But the arrival of a vaccine within a year is an “optimistic” forecast, estimated the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The coronavirus is a challenge that knows no borders, and humanity may have to learn to live with it, recalled the World Health Organization (WHO).
“This virus may become endemic in our communities, it may never go away,” said Michael Ryan, the institution’s director of health emergencies.
The nervousness also returned to China: in Wuhan, where the Covid-19 sprang, the authorities ordered new massive detection tests before the appearance of new cases.
Reopening of the beaches in Los Angeles
Despite the doubts, and while the scientists work against the clock, Governments recognize that they are obligated to revive their economies.
Japan announced that it was lifting the state of emergency in most regions of the archipelago, although it remained in the Tokyo and Osaka agglomerations.
In Europe, where the pandemic is fueling more than 162,000 deaths, most countries began a de-escalation of confinement.
The soccer championship in Germany will resume behind closed doors this Saturday, and it could be that the British, Spanish and Italians will do the same soon.
In the United States, the beaches of Los Angeles, closed for six weeks, They have reopened without people being able to lay down their towels or play a game of volleyball. The use of a mask was declared mandatory in the city.
Covid-19 is gaining ground and causing nervousness in the most affected countries in Latin America.
No country “is causing as much damage to itself as Brazil, an institutional havoc was already happening, but now it has reached the limits of folly, it is leading the country to chaos,” said the vice president of that country, Hamilton Mourao, on Thursday. an article in the daily Estadao de S. Paulo.
Brazil is the country most affected by the pandemic in the region with more than 13,000 deaths.
In Africa, the pandemic has not wreaked as much havoc as feared and has left less than 2,500 dead. But there are more and more indications that this figure is much lower than the real one.
The significant increase in unexplained deaths in northern Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, fears increase in the face of a great spread of the coronavirus in this region, one of the poorest in the world.
The “new poor” in Italy
On the economic level, Australia announced that almost 600,000 people were unemployed in April Due to confinement, the highest number for more than four decades.
For his part Germany announced that this year some 100,000 million euros will stop entering public coffers Because of the crisis, the worst in the world since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Millions of people who have seen their incomes evaporate overnight have had to turn to food aid.
In the United States, a third of the unemployed cannot pay their bills, according to an official survey. In Cuba, a third of private businesses are threatened by the crisis.
In Italy, the first epicenter of the pandemic in Europe and which already has more than 30,000 deaths, the economic slowdown is leaving many “new poor”.
This is the case of “Ana”, a woman from Rome who worked in cleaning and after losing her income, she crosses the whole city in search of a food package distributed by a charitable association.
“I come here from time to time, when the situation becomes difficult. I am ashamed, “murmurs this woman.
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