The alert was given on Monday by the director-general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while a million of cases have been reported in eight days on the planet.
Some countries are more close to find the situation in force prior to march, particularly in Europe. A déconfinement with the aim of reviving their economies. But on the other, they are still faced with an epidemic wave. The pandemic of Covid-19 “continues to accelerate” in the world, warned this Monday, the director general of the world Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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last week, he had qualified this new phase of “dangerous”, considering that, despite the need to get out of the containment, the virus continued and “spread rapidly” and was “deadly”. The Express has extracted a few figures confirm this disturbing trend.
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1 000 000
This is the number of cases of coronavirus recorded in the world in just eight days. “It took more than three months for the first million of cases is reported, the last million cases were reported in just eight days”, pointed out this Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
183 020
According to the figures of the instance un, 183 020 positive tests were recorded in 24 hours. This is about 2000 more than the previous record, recorded on the 18th of June. The vast majority of these new cases have been detected on the american continent, with a total of 116 000 new infections.
50 000
Brazil, the second country in the world the most bereaved behind the United States (119 977 deaths), exceeded the threshold of 50 000 deaths and million cases. The mega-cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the most severely affected. Elsewhere in Latin America, the balance sheet has exceeded these last days the 20, 000 deaths in Mexico, 1000 deaths in Argentina and 8,000 people died in Peru.
In total, the Covid-19 killed, officially at least 468 518 people in the world and has infected over 8.9 million, of which 4.2 million are now considered as cured, since China has reported the appearance in December of the disease.
1300
In Germany, more than 1 300 employees of a slaughterhouse have tested positive for the coronavirus in the city of Gütersloh, in North Rhine-Westphalia. The 6 500 employees on this site have been placed in quarantine. This cluster was located on the 17th June, when 400 employees were tested positive. In the course of the weekend, the reproductive rate of the virus is passed 1.79 to 2.88 to according to official figures.
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26
A rebound of the epidemic is of concern to the China since last week with more than 220 new cases were reported, of which 26 between Sunday and Monday. Among these 26 new cases, 22 were recorded in Beijing, the chinese capital fueling the fear of a new wave. In total, China (without the territories of Hong Kong and Macao) has officially recorded 83 378 cases of Covid-19.
