More than three million cases of Covid-19 have been identified in India, as Melbourne faces a resurgence of cases despite population isolation
More than three million cases of Covid-19 have been identified in India, while Melbourne faces a resurgence of cases despite the isolation of the population.
The balance continues to grow. More than 13.6 million people have contracted the disease and at least 585,750 deaths have been reported worldwide since the coronavirus pandemic began in China in December, according to the latest report.
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In Europe, the start of reconfinement is happening in Catalonia, Italy has officially crossed the symbolic mark of 35,000 people who have died from Covid-19, while Brazil has announced that it has identified more than two million cases of infection in its country. India, meanwhile, has crossed the threshold of one million reported cases.
Barcelona called “stay at home”
Residents of the Barcelona metropolitan area have been urged to “stay at home” except for urgent reasons due to an increase in Covid-19 cases, a spokesman for the regional Catalan government has announced.
“They should stay at home as soon as it is not necessary to go out,” Meritxell Budo told reporters, announcing, in addition, the closing of cinemas, theaters or nightclubs, a ban on gatherings of more than ten people and visits to retirement homes or limiting capacity to 50% in bars and restaurants.
New records in the United States and reconfinement in Germany
Faced with a very strong resurgence of the virus since the end of June, the United States remains the most affected country in terms of confirmed contamination deaths (138,201 deaths out of 3.5 million cases).
The country has set a new record for daily Covid-19 infections, with more than 68,000 new cases within 24 hours. On Thursday at 20:30, 3,560,364 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the country.
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Faced with the risk of a second wave of the virus, Germany, relatively unscathed here, is going to its side to allow containment measures to be implemented locally. With this new arsenal, the authorities will impose a “production ban” in limited geographic areas.
India has passed the number of one million patients
For its part, India crossed the symbolic mark of one million reported cases of the disease on its territory this Friday, local authorities multiply the number of restrictions and repeated bans to suppress the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. The third nation in the world with the number of identified infections, after the United States and Brazil, the Asian giant had 25,602 deaths on Friday for 1,003,832 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic, according to official figures released in the morning by the Ministry of Health.
The second most populous nation on the planet has recorded nearly 35,000 cases and 700 deaths attributed to the virus in the past 24 hours, according to an official report, while the number of deaths from Covid-19 remains relatively low compared to the worst-hit countries. The current toll is 18 deaths per million, compared with 417 in the United States, the nation most affected by the pandemic.
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The impoverished state of Bihar’s 125 million residents went into lockdown again at midnight on Thursday, a day after the capital Bangalore’s 13 million residents did. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed a brutal shutdown in late March, lifting it in early June, despite a rise in cases, to try to revive the economy on its knees. Many restrictions remain in effect.
South Asia is on its way to becoming the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned this week. “While the world’s attention is focused on the ongoing crisis in the United States and South America, a similar human tragedy is emerging rapidly in South Asia,” John Fleming, IFRC regional coordinator, said in a press release.
Outbreak of new cases in Melbourne
In Australia, the coronavirus does not spare even Melbourne, the second largest city in the country: on Friday, more than 400 new cases of Covid-19 were identified, which is a record since the end of March, despite the reconfinement there. are more than a week. The authorities of the federal state of Victoria, whose capital is Melbourne, reported 423 new cases in the metropolis of five million inhabitants and another five in rural areas of the state.
The daily total in the region is higher than all published daily data for the entire country since the end of March. “We’re not out of the crisis, quite the contrary,” said Victoria’s health officer Brett Sutton. While the vast island-continent was able to contain itself before the outbreak, Melbourne has seen a resurgence of cases since mid-June.
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This new wave has been attributed to hotel violations where travelers returning from overseas were in their forties. Five million residents of Melbourne and its suburbs were last week ordered to stay indoors for six weeks after measures taken to contain the virus failed. “Hopefully the numbers will stabilize next week,” said Brett Sutton.
Other Australian states have closed their borders with Victoria to prevent the spread of the virus. But many cases of local transmission have been reported in Sydney. The outbreak was identified in a pub where a Melbourne resident who was infected visited. A total of 42 cases have been identified as linked to the school, but authorities in Sydney this Friday reported other infections with no apparent connection to the pub. Australia has 25 million inhabitants, records 11,000 cases of coronavirus and 116 deaths.
Israel reimposes restrictions over the weekend
The Israeli government decided to withdraw the measures from Friday “to avoid general containment” due to the increasing number of new Covid-19 cases being discovered every day, announcing the closure of certain public places, especially during the weekend.
from early Friday evening until Sunday morning and until further notice, “shops (convenient), malls, hair and beauty salons, libraries, zoos, museums, swimming pools, tourist attractions and trams” will be closed, according to a joint press release Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the Ministry of Health.
Restaurants will have to be limited to delivery and sales during the week, while the gym will be closed seven days a week and indefinitely. Friday is the beginning of the weekly Shabbat holiday and many restaurants close at that time. Sunday is the beginning of the week in Israel.
The third appeal of the United Nations
In this context, the UN is seeking an additional $3.6 billion to fund its humanitarian response plan to the pandemic worldwide and has warned developed countries of the “cost of inaction” in dealing with the virus in poor areas.
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Date of update: 17 July 2020, 07:58
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