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In an interview with AFP in Geneva, the American scientist asked people to be “mentally prepared”, because the coronavirus “will be with us for a while”.
He also warned that “disagreements” in science and politics make the fight against the coronavirus “even more difficult”, that leaves 1.09 million deaths and more than 38.5 million infections on the planet.
The director of the Europe section in the WHO, Hans Kluge, announced that “the number of daily cases increases, the admissions in hospitals also. Covid is already the fifth leading cause of death and the level of 1,000 deaths per day has been reached”.
And, based on projections, the WHO warned that a mortality level could be reached “4 or 5 times higher than in April” if restrictions are lifted prematurely.
But the countries they are desperate for the recession caused by the pandemic and the way it affects social and cultural life, sports, the world of work, health systems and even electoral campaigns.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most mourning region in the world with more than 373,000 deaths and 10 million infections.
Peru, which began a gradual reopening of museums and archaeological sites, announced this Thursday that its economy contracted 9.8% in August compared to the same month in 2019, while the GDP fell 15.66% in the first eight months of the year.
While, Costa Rica reported that poverty (with a monthly income of less than $ 80) reached 26.2% of households, the highest level in nearly three decades. Extreme poverty reached 7% of households.
Chile, whose economy fell 11.3% in August, announced for its part that will not lift the quarantine that governs some areas of the country during the constitutional plebiscite of October 25, although it will allow to go to the polls without restrictions.
Europe, with 6.8 million cases and more than 245,000 deaths, suffers a resurgence of proportions, with a significant spread of the coronavirus even in countries that had managed to break the first wave, like Germany.
The European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, asked the countries of the European Union to do “what is necessary” to avoid a generalized confinement.
“Time is short and everyone must do what is necessary to avoid the devastating social, economic and health effects of widespread confinement,” he said.
The possibility of a new total confinement is something that Europe cannot afford, according to the WHO.
“We cannot sustainably maintain a lockdown like the one in March, which was a break. The pressure and collateral damage on the people was too high, ”Kluge said.
But Poland, which declared Warsaw a “red zone” and Other cities in the country announced a lockdown due to the outbreak of the virus, asking the population to “stay at home” and “telework.”
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In London (England), the 9 million inhabitants of the city will not be able to reunite with relatives and friends in closed spaces as of Saturday, announced the government, which put the capital on a “high” alert level.
And France this Thursday exceeded 30,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours, for the first time since the launch of the mass tests, reported the public health agency.
In Paris and the main cities of the country, it will take effect on Saturday for at least one month a night curfew to reduce the breakneck speed of contagions.
In Spain, where the government imposed a state of alarm in Madrid last week, the central executive and regional authorities are fighting a real war of numbers to the astonishment of a large part of the population.
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