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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 21. Global epidemic report on the 20th: A new mutated corona virus emerged in the UK and the US reported an increase of more than 400,000 confirmed cases.
Global data
World Health Organization: At 5:34 PM Central European Time (12:34 AM on the 21st Beijing time), the number of confirmed cases of new corona worldwide increased by 808,224 compared to the day previous, reaching 75110651; the number of deaths increased by 10,312, reaching 1,680,395.
Johns Hopkins University in the United States: At 7:27 am on the 21st Beijing time, there were 76,750,811 confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide and 16,92067 deaths. The United States is the most affected country in the world, with 17,819,583 confirmed cases and 317,588 deaths.
News
With the arrival of Christmas, the spread of the new corona virus has accelerated in parts of the UK and the epidemic is worrisome. The British government is investigating whether this situation is related to a new mutated corona virus and has raised the level of prevention and control of the new corona epidemic in the capital, London, the south-east and east of England from the third level. to the newly added room.
The French government announced on the 20th that due to the mutation of the new corona virus in the UK, France will suspend travel of people from the UK within 48 hours of midnight that day.
Epidemic data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 19th showed that on the 18th, more than 400,000 new confirmed cases of new crowns were reported in the United States, reaching 403,359, which is a new increase in a single day in a country around the world. The highest number on record; 2,756 new deaths.
The latest epidemic model forecast published by the Institute for Health Statistics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in the United States shows that the number of new deaths in a single day in the United States will continue to rise, and will exceed 3,750 per day in mid-January of next year; By April 1 of next year, the United States will accumulate New crown deaths may reach 562,000, which means there will be more than 200,000 deaths before April next year.
Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health issued a statement on the 20th that the country will begin vaccination work on the new crown on the same day. It will first vaccinate medical personnel and will vaccinate people over 60, seriously ill and chronically ill from day 21 on. The vaccine was administered in two injections, 21 days apart. Vaccination will be carried out through the Israel National Health Foundation and local hospitals, and approximately 60,000 doses of vaccine will be provided each day.
According to the latest data released by the New Crown Epidemic Management Center of Thailand on the 20th, the number of new coronavirus infections related to a seafood market in Samut Sakhon province in the central Thailand, has risen to 689, and the epidemic tends to the capital Bangkok. On the same day, the Bangkok city government announced that it would cancel all New Year’s Eve celebrations in the city.
The Indian Ministry of Culture issued a statement on the 20th announcing the cancellation of the maximum number of tourists to monuments and protected sites nationwide during the new corona epidemic to promote the recovery of tourism.
