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The United States is approaching a total of 10 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with the outbreak increasing for weeks across the country and the Midwest being the worst hit. The number of new diagnoses is approaching spring levels in the South, Northeast, and West.
After three days of record highs, 122,075 new cases were recorded over 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University, a record in itself for a weekend. Another 991 deaths added to the rapidly growing death toll, which now stands at 237,016. The cases are expected to increase further as the country turns into winter and people switch to socializing indoors, providing the best conditions for spreading the virus.
Record numbers of infections are being recorded around the world, as the world reached 600,000 confirmed daily cases and the global daily death toll also reached a record 11,024 confirmed deaths last week.
Behind the US, India has the highest number of cases in the world reporting 8.5 million. COVID-19 has resurfaced after a hiatus, with new cases reaching a record 7,000 per day. Certain official predictions say the figure could soon exceed 12,000. With studies strongly linking air pollution to rising COVID-19 deaths, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said heavy annual smog from agricultural fires, automobiles, and industry was making the crisis worse. pandemic. Every winter pollution season, the demand for beds increases in the world’s most polluted capital due to the increase in lung diseases and chronic bronchitis.
A Harvard University study published last month said that an increase of just one micron per cubic meter of PM 2.5 causes an 11% increase in mortality from COVID-19. Other studies indicate that the problem is particularly serious for the poorest sectors of society, such as those living in slums, who tend to live closer to sources of pollution.
A second wave of COVID-19 relentlessly swept through Europe, reporting more than 12 million cases and more than 300,000 deaths, and the continent became the new epicenter of the pandemic. Two-thirds of the deaths have been registered in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain and Russia. Countries are rushing to try to curb their escalating cases, imposing new blockades despite signs of growing unrest.
The dramatic rise in infections is putting further pressure on hospitals across the continent. Almost 1,000 COVID-19 patients have been transferred from one hospital to another in Belgium since the beginning of October in an effort to share the burden, the Belgian news agency reported on Saturday. To prevent hospitals from being forced to turn away patients, the government imposed a partial closure earlier this month, ordering the closure of all non-essential stores and limiting close contact to one person per household.
