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The dizzying number of pandemic victims occurs at a time when at least 73 countries are experiencing an increase in newly detected cases.
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The Taj Mahal has reopened in India after a pandemic-related closure of more than six months.
This is an astonishing number, nearly 200,000 other people have died of coronavirus in the United States and nearly one million people worldwide.
And the pandemic, which has caused an outbreak of instances in many countries and then a drop after the lockdowns, has reached a precarious point, will countries like the United States see that the virus will continue to slow down? Or will there be a new wave on its way? road?
“What’s going to happen, no one knows,” said Catherine Troisi, infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. “This virus has surprised us on many fronts and may surprise us again. “
In the United States, fewer new cases of coronavirus have been detected week after week since last July, after outbreaks first in the Northeast and then in the south and west.
But in recent days, the number of new cases in the country is emerging again, fueling considerations of a resurgence of the virus as universities and schools reopen and the colder climate pushes others inland.
Worldwide, at least 73 countries are experiencing an increase in recently detected cases.
In India, more than 90,000 new cases are detected daily lately, bringing the total number of cases in the country to more than one million.
In Europe, after blockades helped quell the crisis in the spring, the virus is burning across the continent.
Israel, with nearly 1,200 deaths attributed to the virus, imposed a momentary blockade last week, one of the few countries that has done so far.
When the first wave of infections spread around the world, governments imposed radical restrictions: more than 4 billion people were under some sort of order to stay home at some point. Many countries are now desperately seeking such intense measures.
“We are facing a very serious situation,” said Hans Kluge, regional director of the World Health Organization for Europe last week, “weekly cases have surpassed those reported when the pandemic peaked in Europe in March. “
Deaths in the United States from coronavirus approached 200,000 on Monday morning; Only 4 months ago, at the end of May, the death toll in the country reached 100,000; even the existing count may be a lower count than the figure, the analyses suggest.
Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Safety at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the death toll in the United States could reach 300,000 if the public lets their guard down.
“There are many countries where we could be our economic peers, or that are much less evolved in terms of the economy or health care systems, that have much less mortality,” he said.
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