India It has passed to Russia as the country with the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording a record number of cases for one day.
The Health Ministry added 23,000 new cases on Monday, bringing India’s total to 697,000 and nearly 20,000 deaths. On Sunday, India racked up nearly 25,000, its highest total in one day.
The increases brought India to Russia as the third highest total in the world behind Brazil with 1.6 million cases and the United States with 2.88 million.
In the Indian capital, New Delhi, medical staff began treating patients at a spiritual center converted into an isolation facility and sprawling hospital with 10,000 beds, many of cardboard and chemically coated to make them waterproof.
Approximately the size of 20 soccer fields, the facilities on the outskirts of the city will treat mild symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.
State government officials fear that Delhi, home to 25 million people, may record more than half a million cases by the end of the month. The city has reused some hotels to provide hospital care. It is also converting wedding halls and has several hundred modified railroad cars waiting.
A strict lock has been gradually lifted since the end of March, allowing most activities after the economy sank during the shutdown.
Schools, city subway trains, cinemas, gyms and swimming pools remain closed and international flights are still on the ground. The authorities have made the use of masks mandatory in public places, while large gatherings are prohibited and shops and other public establishments are obliged to implement social distancing.
Like India South Africa It imposed some of the strictest home-staying measures in the world in late March in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19, but the number of infections increases daily as blocking rules are gradually lowered. South Africa reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, the highest recorded daily jump in the country. So far there have been 196,750 cases and 3,199 deaths in the country.
The total global number of cases is 11.4 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The virus has claimed the lives of 533,780 people.
At U.SThe Centers for Disease Control reported 52,228 new cases on Sunday, marking the fourth consecutive day that new cases have exceeded 50,000 according to their accounts.
Two prominent Texas mayors warned that their cities’ hospitals will be “overwhelmed” by the Covid-19 cases within two weeks, even as Donald Trump continues to portray the resurgence of the coronavirus across the country as the embers of a fire that it is constantly extinguishing.
the Australian The state of Victoria recorded its biggest jump in cases at any time from the coronavirus crisis, with 127 cases reported on Monday, as the prime minister announced that the border with neighboring New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, It would be closed from midnight on Tuesday. The decision marks the first time that the border between the two states will be closed in 100 years.
Victoria also recorded a new death, with a total of 105 deaths in Australia. The country has 8,583 cases.
In response to the record increase in cases, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian says: “What is happening in Victoria has not yet happened in Australia. It is a new phenomenon. “
Meanwhile, NSW Police Commissioner Mike Fuller warned that the border was too long, but would be closely monitored.
“Someone might choose to swim across the river, walk through the bush, use dirt tracks,” he said, noting that aerial surveillance, for example with drones, will be used to enforce restrictions.
Iran broke a grim record of daily deaths, while 163 people in the country die within 24 hours. The government has introduced mandatory face masks in public spaces. after admitting that his efforts to introduce effective voluntary social distancing have failed.
Other key global developments include:
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The Governor of Tokyo, JapanYuriko Koike won a second term, propelled to an electoral victory by public support for her management of the coronavirus crisis, despite a recent surge in infections.
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Peru On Sunday, more than 300,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 jumped, the fifth highest in the world, as the Andean nation of nearly 33 million people slowly reopened its battered economy. The death toll in Peru from the virus is now 10,589, the tenth highest in the world.
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In the United States, Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor Nick Cordero died in Los Angeles of serious medical complications after contracting coronavirus. He was 41 years old.
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