The world has crossed Sunday the milestone of 10 million infected with new coronavirus, which continues to wreak havoc in the United States and seems to be picking up in China.
The world has crossed Sunday the milestone of 10 million cases officially diagnosed with the new coronavirus, according to a count taken by the AFP, the evidence of an acceleration of the pandemic, notably in the Americas, on fears of a “second wave” and measures of reconfinement in part.More than 10 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially reported worldwide, of which more than half in Europe and the United States, according to a count taken from official sources this Sunday morning.
Among these 10 million cases, 498 of 779 deaths have been identified, including in Europe, the continent most affected with 195 975 deaths, as well as in the United States (125 539 deaths). The pandemic is progressing, now more quickly in Latin America, with more than 400 000 cases reported over the last seven days on the continent. The Express reported on the situation this Sunday.
2.5 million cases in the United States
The United States past Saturday, the bar of the 2.5 million infections coronavirus, according to the counting of the Johns Hopkins university, while the pandemic seems to be out of control especially in the south of the country, already the most hit in the world. The u.s. health authorities (CDC) have reviewed recently their model on the rise, providing for a total of 150,000 dead by mid-July.
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A 17: 30 Saturday, the United States had saved 2 500 419 confirmed cases of contamination, according to the university of Baltimore, whose balance sheets are the authoritative source. Florida in particular has recorded a new record, with 9585 new patients and 24 deaths a day. For the governor of the State, Ron DeSantis, there is a “real explosion” of the disease among young people who have returned to the beaches and late-night parties in favour of the déconfinement.
At least 10 003 942 cases, of which 498 779 deaths, have been identified, including in Europe, the continent most affected with 2 637 546 cases, of which 195 975 dead, and the United States (2 510 323 is therefore a case where, for 125 539 deaths). The pace of the pandemic continues to accelerate in the world, with one million new cases detected in just six days.
The figure for the number of contamination reflects only a part of the real number of cases, many countries are using the tests for the tracing or does not have sufficient resources to conduct large screening campaigns.
A situation is still “serious” in Beijing
China has confined this Sunday, nearly half a million people near the capital Beijing, affected since mid-June by a rebound Covid-19 that the authorities still describe as “serious and complex”. The asian country has largely contained the epidemic. But the emergence of some 300 new cases in the city in the space of a little more than two weeks, fueling fears of a second wave of contaminations.
The town council has already launched a comprehensive screening campaign, closed the schools, called the Pekingese not to leave the capital and confined thousands of people in the residential areas judged to be at risk. Local authorities announced on Sunday the containment of the township of Anxin, located 60 kilometres to the south of Beijing in Hebei province. Eleven cases related to the rebound of the epidemic in beijing have been identified, according to the newspaper’s semi-official Global Times. Only one person per household will now be allowed to go out once a day to buy food and medicines.
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The chinese ministry of Health reported Sunday that 14 new cases of local in Beijing during the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 311 since the beginning of the rebound of the epidemic. The outbreak was detected in Xinfadi, a wholesale market in the south of the city. It supplies most of the supermarkets and restaurants of the capital of fresh products. About a third of the new cases reported up to now are related to that section of the market reserved for the meats beef and mutton, reported Sunday, city officials at a press conference.
“The situation of the epidemic in the capital is serious and complex”, underlined Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the city. The screening is still ongoing for those who have frequented the market, the employees of restaurants, delivery drivers, and the inhabitants of residential areas judged to be at risk.
An English city, risk containment, local
The city of Leicester (centre) risk the imposition of restrictive measures due to an upsurge in local the case of a new coronavirus, said the minister of the Interior in britain on Sunday, a few days before a major milestone in the déconfinement in England. After being very criticized over its management of the pandemic coronavirus, which has over 43,000 deaths in the Uk, which makes it the most affected country in Europe, Prime minister Boris Johnson has the difficult task of succeeding the déconfinement the next big step is expected next Saturday.
According to the Sunday Times, the government préfirewall to impose a confinement “in the next few days” in the city of Leicester, where 658 new cases were reported in the two weeks preceding the 16th of June. The journal links the increase in cases in an epidemic in factories of food production and to the large gatherings in the vicinity of restaurants offering take-aways.
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Interviewed by the BBC, the minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, said that it was “accurate” that the government was considering measures to local containment. “There will be a support in Leicester and the minister of Health has been in contact with many of us over the weekend to explain some of the measures”, she explained.
