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Washington, August 31, 2020 – The Coronavirus he has exceeded 25 million of cases around the world. The figures provided by Johns Hopkins University are increasingly alarming: 25,222,709 infections, and 846,395 deaths for complications related to infection. the U.S it continues to be the most affected country with more than six million cases and more than 183,000 deaths. the Brazil it ranks second with about 3.85 cases and 120,260 deaths. Still grows too India, that registered more than 80 thousand new cases in the last 24 hours, for a total of 3,621,245 infections and 64,469 victims. Europe is dealing with lower numbers, but no less alarming because they are outlining a second wave of infections, after the advantages of the blockades, which come precisely from the reopening, travel and holidays. France, Spain and Germany, but also Italy, they are seeing a worrying resumption of cases, and someone is already talking about new quarantines. Instead, Russia announces that since November it can be possible get vaccinated, with the delivery of large batches of the biological medicine.
And comes the warning from the WHO: “Aprire without having control of the virus is a recipe for disaster – says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – The more countries have control over the virus, the more they can open. “This is because Covid-19″ spreads very efficiently between groups of people. In many countries, we have seen explosive blasts linked to gatherings of people in stadiums, clubs, places of worship, and other crowds. ” There are ways to allow such meetings. Decisions on how and when to allow them must be made on the basis of a risk-based approach, within a local context ”, underlines the DG.
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France
am just over 3000 (3,082) the cases of positivity to Covid in France that emerged in the last 24 hours, a sharp decrease compared to the last two days and approximately half the peak of last Friday, with more than 7,000 infections. However, Monday’s numbers are generally affected by a slowdown in counts over the weekend. The rate of positive tests continues to increase (4.2% compared to 4.1% yesterday), as well as the number of hospitalized (47 more, to 4,582) and the number of patients in resuscitation (7 more, total 409) . Deaths leap forward, with 29 more deaths in the past 24 hours, to 30,635.
Meanwhile, tomorrow is the long-awaited day of the reopening of schools in France, the “rentrée scolaire”. Approximately 12.4 million students return to classes after the summer and after a few months of closure and partial returns, only partially offset by distance education that failed to reach all recipients.
Russia
In November it can be possible get vaccinated against coronavirus in Russia. In fact, large batches of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine will be delivered in September, the Russian health minister said. Mikhail murashko to doctors in the Irkutsk region. “Delivery of large batches of the vaccine will begin in early September. Post-registration follow-up groups are forming, more than 2,500 people have already been recruited and their total number will reach 40,000. There are other vaccines in progress. We will reach the quantities. highs in the period November December. You can be vaccinated against the flu and the new coronavirus at different times ”, are the words of Murashko, reports Interfax.
Spain
The Spanish Ministry of Health has registered 23,000 new cases of coronavirus since Friday, an average of more than 7,000 infections per day. In the last 7 days there have also been 141 deaths related to the disease.
Germany
In the last 24 hours, 610 new cases have been registered in Germany, reports the Robert Koch Institute (Rki). The total number of infected people stands at 242,381, while 9,298 people have lost their lives due to complications related to the virus, three more since yesterday.
Angela Merkel denounced the “shameful images” seen on Saturday when a group of anti-mask protesters tried to break into the Reichstag building. For the German Chancellor it was an “abuse of the right to demonstrate.”
GB
The situation in the UK is getting worse with 1,715 new cases yesterday, the highest number of daily infections since June 4. One death is also reported. The total number of infections in the country has risen to 336,670, while deaths are 41,586.
U.S
In the United States there are more than 6 million cases of contagion, writes the New York Times. The number of victims exceeds 183 thousand. In the past 24 hours, the highest number of cases was in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
India
In India 78,512 new cases have been announced, a figure slightly lower than the record set yesterday when it registered 78,761, the daily record for global infections. The total number of infected is 3.62 million. While deaths increased by 971, bringing the total to 64,469, the Health Ministry said.
Mexico
Mexico registered 4,129 new cases and 339 more deaths. The total number of infections in 595,841 and that of deaths in 64,158.
malt
Malta has its twelfth Covid-19 victim. An 86-year-old man died after testing positive. This is the second death in two days. Govenro appeals to citizens to continue to comply with the norms for the prevention of contagion.
Peru
The mayor of the tourist Peruvian city of Cuzco, Ricardo Valderrama, 75, died this Sunday as a victim of Covid-19, a month after starting the fight against the disease at the Adolfo Guevara hospital. Valderrama, who was an anthropologist, had held the position of mayor of the Unesco heritage city since last December.
Cuzco, in the Andean southeast of Peru, is in quarantine due to the resumption of the pandemic in the area. The ancient capital of the Inca empire is the most important place for Peruvian tourism, as it houses the citadel of Machu Picchu, closed since March, when the pandemic began. So far, Peru has registered 647,166 cases of coronavirus with 28,788 deaths.
Other countries
the Japan recorded another 603 cases and 15 deaths. In the Land of the Rising Sun, the total number of infections is 68,577 and the number of deaths is 1,297. In Tokyo alone, 148 infections have been reported, up from 247 on Saturday, 20,717 infections have been recorded in the Japanese capital since the start of the pandemic. L ‘Australia expects fewer than 100 new cases, for the first time in two months. The second epidemic wave was concentrated in the Melbourne region. The state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, has gone from more than 700 infections at the end of July to just 73 new cases. But an outbreak emerged at a juvenile detention center in Brisbane. In Australia, the total of positives since the beginning of the crisis is almost 26,000 cases and in which 652 people have died. There Tunisia In the last 24 hours it has reported another 113 new infections, bringing the total to 3,685. Deaths amount to 76. TheIndonesia yesterday reported 2,858 new infections. In the country, 100 doctors have died from Covid-19. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 172,053 cases and 7,343 deaths have been registered. In Colombia there are 8,024 new cases and 300 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of infections in the South American country is 607,938 and the number of deaths 19,364. At Philippines today there are 3,446 new cases and 38 deaths. The total number of infections is 220,819 and the number of deaths 3,558. In Israel Israeli health authorities announced 1,102 new cases, bringing the total to 116,000 infected throughout the state intoxicated.
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