The global fitness government said Thursday that European countries will be able to succeed over an outbreak of coronavirus cases without reintroducing full blockades, while the World Bank warned that the crisis could plunge a hundred million people into excessive poverty.
Worrying peaks in Thursday cases in France, Italy, Spain and Germany showed that the pandemic was recovering across the continent, due to travel, summer holidays and holidays.
While Italy recorded 845 new cases on Thursday, its highest daily count since May, France reported 4,700 new infections, a huge increase since the previous day. Spain’s daily accumulation surpassed that of France and Germany involved in its own resurgence.
Despite the backing of cases, a senior World Health Organization official said no further closures are needed.
“With additional and nationally targeted key measures, we are in a much better position to eliminate these localized virus outbreaks,” Hans Kluge, director of WHO’s European branch, told reporters.
“We can handle the virus and keep the economy running and an operational school system,” he added.
The coronavirus pandemic would probably have led another hundred million people into excessive poverty, World Bank President David Malpass warned in an interview with AFP on Thursday.
The Washington-based progressive lender estimated that another 60 million people would fall into excessive poverty, however, the new estimate estimates that the deterioration is between 70 and 100 million, and said that “this number may increase” if the pandemic worsens or continues. , which is possible.
Meanwhile, the number of deaths from the virus in Latin America has exceeded 250,000.
Nine months after the virus began ravaging the world from China last December, the pandemic hit America harder than anywhere else.
Latin America and the Caribbean recorded about 6.5 million infections and 250,969 deaths at 22:00 GMT on Thursday, according to an AFFP account of national official figures. Globally, the virus has killed at least 788,242 people.
Brazil is the most affected country in the region with 3.5 million cases and more than 112,000 deaths.
The South American giant is time for the United States as the top hit country in the world.
Peru, where figures published on Thursday show a 30% drop in GDP in the current quarter, recorded more than 26,000 deaths.
– Economic toll –
The crushing economic damage is not only attributable to the virus itself, but also to the blockades that have largely disrupted advertising activity in the world.
The United States, where 174,000 more people have died, still endures the brunt of physical care and is suffering from dire economic benefits.
The number of Americans applying for after-school programs during the week has exceeded one million, U.S. officials said Thursday, above last week’s figures.
Germany will have to borrow further in 2021 to mitigate the effect of coronavirus on the economy, finance minister Olaf Scholz said.
“Next year we will continue to be forced to suspend the debt rule and spend a wealth of budget for citizens’ fitness and stabilize the economy,” Scholz said in an interview with media organization Funke, referring to Germany’s beloved policy of keeping balance. Budget.
The government has pledged more than a trillion euros in aid to businesses and citizens of Europe’s largest economy as a result of the consequences of the pandemic, as well as short-term loans, grants and subsidy programmes.
– Hope vaccines –
Disturbing trends emerged in India when a new study warned that more than a quarter of Delhi’s 20 million people would have become inflamed without symptoms appearing, supporting several studies.
The figures added urgency to the desperate attempt to locate a vaccine opposed to the virus, which has inflamed more than 22 million people and has killed thousands of people since it gave the impression that it was expired last year in China.
Russia announced Thursday that it is proceeding to test more than 40,000 people from its drug candidate, known as Sputnik V, which has already been hailed by Russian officials as a good fortune, even when experts questioned the rigour of the testing regime.
Several drugs are reaching the massive phase and countries around the world have reserved millions of doses.
The EU said Thursday that it had entered into talks with a German pharmaceutical company to unload 225 million doses of a vaccine, the fourth such agreement reached through the bloc.
“This will resolve the unrest of the coming weeks, but the next few months,” he said.
However, while a vaccine remains difficult to reach, governments seek to control the spread through social estrangement measures, quarantines, prohibitions and trade restrictions.
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