Brazil is the time for the United States in terms of instances and deaths, and has also reported a sobering figure, which has exceeded 90,000 deaths.
Exactly six months after the World Health Organization declared a foreign emergency related to the fatal pathogen, countries around the world are experiencing a build-up of infections that harm economies and impose disruptive protection measures.
Even countries that had the idea that they had largely curbed the disease are grappling with the worried resurgences at the time and third wave, and Australia reported a record number of new infections on Thursday and the deadliest day of the pandemic to date.
Despite efforts to involve the virus, COVID-19 has killed more than 666,000 people internationally and the total number of infections has exceeded 17 million, according to an AFP count.
Global instances are now reaching the 300,000 mark, and the curve has no flattening symptoms: it only took a hundred hours for a million new instances to be registered.
Rises in Australia
Days after the Australian government expressed hope that a Melbourne blockade, now in its third week, would bring control of persistent epidemics, the increase is a harsh warning that the first successes in coVID-19 management may fade temporarily.
Thirteen deaths and 723 trials were reported in the southeastern state of Victoria alone, well above the last national record of 549 instances set on Monday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the sharp increase in the number of employees is “very worrying.”
In Hong Kong, where the government fears that a third wave of alarming infections could cried out the health care system, the government oversulted a one-day ban on restaurants serving consumers in restaurants in the wake of widespread public anger.
All of the city’s restaurants of 7.5 million people were ordered to serve only takeaways as part of a series of accelerated social estrangement measures aimed at combating the new wave of virus cases.
But social media temporarily struck through photos of manual workers, usually forced to eat on sidewalks and parks, and even in internal public restrooms to escape a torrential downpor.
The United States, however, is still grappling with its first wave, as it has never caught the virus, and on Wednesday alone, the country recorded 1,267 new deaths in the past 24 hours and recorded more than 68,000 new cases per day.
The southern and western states were the most affected, namely Florida, where more than 6,300 people died.
Travel list
The EU should update its list of countries approved for the European bloc on Thursday, which it reviews every two weeks. The United States was not on the list and deserves not to be included.
The EU list, however, includes Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay.
The bloc is expected to announce that Algeria is removed from the list following a resurgence of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, several European countries have imposed restrictions on and from Spain, while officials are discussing elsewhere about the seriousness of the existing epidemic.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, newly announced quarantine for travellers returning from Spain, warned that the rest of Europe could face a momentary wave, despite bleak numbers from his own country.
France’s fitness minister responded on Wednesday, saying his country did not at one point.
Spain, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, insists that it is a destination and has criticized Britain’s general quarantine, which includes islands without primary epidemics.
Brazil also needs visitors to return and on Wednesday reopened foreigners arriving by air, hoping to revive its tourism industry devastated by the closure. The country closed its air borders to non-residents on March 30, at a time when the virus was only taking hold in South America.
Neighboring Peru surpassed 400,000 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the ministry of fitness said, after the largest buildup of infections in more than six weeks.