The global coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 806,000 people worldwide, nearly a quarter of those in the United States.
More than 23.2 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge compiled through the Center for Science and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Actual figures are thought to be much higher due to a shortage of checks, unreported instances, and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the scope of their epidemics.
The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 5.6 million cases diagnosed and at least 176,659 deaths.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it granted emergency approval for the first surface antiviral coating approved for use to permanently oppose COVID-19’s guilty virus with a bachelor application.
The product, SurfaceWise 2, from Allied BioScience of Texas, is now approved for use through American Airlines, Texas Methodist Health Group and at some locations at Texas Total Orthopaedics Sports and Spine clinics.
“This is, I think, a major announcement of our efforts to combat coronavirus and COVID19,” EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a call with reporters Monday morning.
While the product is intended to deactivate the virus on surfaces between regimen cleanings for up to seven days, Wheeler said he did not intend to update the common cleaning with disinfectants, hand washing, masked dress or social estrangement. He also claimed that the EPA did not discover any fitness hazards when it came into contact with the product on a surface, the National Institutes of Health found that the main ingredient, quaternary ammonium, can be irritating and exacerbate asthma.
ABC News’ Stephanie Ebbs contributed to this report.
The University of Hong Kong claims to have documented the first global case of coVID-19 reinfection.
The university made the announcement in a press release Monday, revealing the effects of her exam on a “seemingly young and healthy patient” who had a momentary episode of COVID-19 infection that was diagnosed more than 4 months after the first episode. A team of researchers showed that the viral strain genome series in the first episode of COVID-19 infection is “clearly different” from that of the viral strain discovered at the time of the infection episode, according to the press release.
Last week, the World Health Organization said more than 75,000 COVID-19 sequences were known and would like to see evidence of inflamed Americans with two other sequences to produce reinfection.
Dozens of studies on COVID-19 immunity are being conducted worldwide. So far, WHO officials say they have learned that other people are having an immune reaction to the virus, but it is not yet clear how strong this reaction is and how long it lasts.
“What we perceive from the press is that this” can “be an example of reinfection,” said Dr Maria van Kerkhove, WHO COVID-19 technical officer and infectious disease epidemiologist, at Monday’s press conference in Geneva.
“It is very vital that we document this and in the countries where sequencing can be done, it would be very, very useful,” he added. “But we will have to not jump to conclusions, even if this is the first documented case of reinfection.”
Christine Theodorou and Karson Yiu of ABC News contributed to the report.
France’s national fitness firm met 4,897 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the largest buildup of infections in the country since it came out of isolation.
However, a coronavirus-related death has been reported in the last 24 hours.
Since the start of the pandemic, France has reported 242,899 cases of COVID-19 with 30,513 deaths. The country is among the most affected in Europe.
The positivity rate for COVID-19 tests in France increased from 2.8% on 18 August to 3.6% on 24 August, according to the national public fitness agency.
IBtissem Guenfoud of ABC News contributed to the report.
There were 34,567 new cases of COVID-19 known Sunday in the United States, according to a Johns Hopkins University account.
This is the first time in six days that the accumulation in instances in the country is less than 40,000. Sunday’s count is also well below the national record set on July 16, when 77,255 new instances were met over a 24-hour period.
Another 449 coronavirus-related deaths were also recorded on Sunday, the first time in six days that the daily death toll is less than 1,000. The figure is also below the record for 2666 new deaths reported on April 17.
A total of 5,704,447 more people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and at least 176,809 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases come with Americans from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories, as well as repatriated citizens.
By May 20, all U.S. states They had begun to lift house orders and other restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Daily accumulation in instances in the country was around 20,000 for a few weeks before emerging and exceeding 70,000 for the first time in mid-July.
Weekly comparisons show that the national number of new cases and deaths has continued to decline in weeks, according to an internal federal Emergency Management Agency memorandum, received through ABC News on Friday night.