The state of emergency has been declared in the japanese region of Okinawa and Mexico has registered a new record of infections, with 8458 new cases in 24 hours.
New balance sheets, new measures, highlights : update on the latest developments of the pandemic Covid-19 in the world.
Resurgence in Japan
The state of emergency has been declared in the tourist area of japan from Okinawa to the result of a “spread explosive,” the coronavirus, according to the authorities. The public is invited to be confined for two weeks.
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“We are witnessing a spread explosive infections. We declare the state of emergency” until August 15, said the governor of the region, Denny Tamak, adding that the hospitals were overwhelmed by this outbreak of contamination.
Hospital in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has opened a field hospital of 500 beds to take care of the sick of the Covid-19 in the face of a new wave of contaminations.
The hospital opens in the aftermath of the announcement by the head of the government, Carrie Lam of the postponement of the general elections next year, officially because of the epidemic.
South Korea : religious leader arrested
The leader of the Church of Shincheonji of Jesus, which had been a focus of infection in South Korea in February, has been arrested for obstructing the government’s policy of combating the spread of the epidemic.
The head of this church – a sect to its detractors – is accused of having given to the health authorities of the records to be inaccurate gatherings of his church, and the false lists to its members.
aviation Sector in crisis
hard-Hit by the crisis in the sector caused by the epidemic, the airline the largest in Latin America, the group brésilo-chilean LATAM will remove 2700 jobs, or a third of its workforce.
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From their side, the pilots of carrier british Airways have approved a plan providing for wage cuts, temporary 20% to limit to 270 compulsory redundancies.
More than 680, 000 deaths
The pandemic has made more than 680, 000 deaths in the world since the onset of the disease at the end of 2019 in China, according to a report drawn up by AFP from official sources on Saturday, at 11 o’clock.
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Over 17.6 million cases of contamination have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories. The United States is the country most heavily affected with 153 314 deaths, followed by Brazil (92 475), Mexico (46 688), the Uk (46 119) and India (36 511).
american Continent : contamination records
Mexico has registered a new record of infections, with 8458 new cases recorded in 24 hours, according to the mexican secretariat of Health. This gate 424 637 the total number of infections in this country.
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In Colombia, the number of deaths related to the Covid-19 now exceeds 10 000. According to the ministry of Health, 295 death and 9488 contamination have been recorded in 24 hours, bringing the total deaths to 10 105 to 295 of 508 cases identified.
The United States of america reported Friday 1442 new deaths in 24 hours. It is the fourth day in a row where the United States there are more than 1200 dead in one day.
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“decades”
“This pandemic is a health crisis as we see only one per century, and its effects will be felt for decades to come,” warned the director-general of the world health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
