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Global epidemic report: Europe’s epidemic recovers quickly
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 18 Global epidemic report on the 17th: The European epidemic recovers rapidly
Global data
World Health Organization: At 7:43 p.m. EDT (1:43 a.m. 18 p.m. Beijing Time), the number of confirmed new corona cases worldwide increased by 392,471 compared to the previous day , reaching 39,919,259; deaths increased by 6,116 compared to the previous day. , A total of 1,101,298 deaths. The number of recently confirmed cases in a single day worldwide reached a record for 2 consecutive days.
Johns Hopkins University in the United States: As of 7:24 a.m. on the 18 Beijing time, there were 39,526,726 confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide and 1,107,297 deaths. The United States is the country with the highest cumulative number of confirmed cases and deaths in the world, with a total of 8,100,662 confirmed cases and 219,156 deaths.
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According to the WHO, the recent rapid rebound in the epidemic in Europe is a major reason for the growing number of confirmed cases around the world. According to WHO data, the European region reported 153,783 new confirmed cases on the 17th, which is the highest number among the 6 regions that the WHO divides in the world, followed by the Americas, which reported 135,640 new cases that day.
German Chancellor Merkel said on the 17th that Germany is currently in the “extremely severe” stage of the new crown pandemic. He called on the public to significantly reduce social contacts to prevent the epidemic from spreading out of control. Data from the Robert Koch Institute, a German disease control agency, showed that there were 7,830 new confirmed cases in Germany, a record for the number of new cases in a single day since the country’s outbreak, with a total of 356,387 confirmed cases. .
A spokesman for Austrian Foreign Minister Schellenberg said on the 17th that Schellenberg tested positive for the new corona virus and has no symptoms and is in isolation at home. On the same day, the Austrian Ministry of Health reported 1,747 new confirmed cases of new crowns, the largest increase in a single day since the country’s outbreak, with a total of 63,134 confirmed cases.
The website of the New Crown Epidemic Prevention and Control Center of Hungary announced on the 17th that the country had 1,792 new confirmed cases of new crowns in the past 24 hours, setting a record for the largest number of new cases in a single day since the outbreak, with a total of 44,816 confirmed cases.
Swedish researchers reported on day 16 the first case of secondary infection of the new crown in the country. The patient is a 53-year-old woman with mild symptoms after the second infection with the new coronavirus. The woman was first diagnosed with the new corona virus in May of this year. After treatment, the novel coronavirus test result came back negative. However, when tested in August, the result was positive again. The researchers said that the results of the viral gene sequencing showed that there were differences in the new coronavirus strains that it infected twice, indicating that it was a secondary infection.
According to the epidemic data released by the Malaysian Ministry of Health on the 17th, at noon of the same day 869 new cases of new corona were confirmed in the country in 24 hours, a record for the number of new cases in a single day. since the outbreak, with a total of 19,627 confirmed cases.
