Authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales said Sunday that there were no new cases of COVID-19 broadcast locally in more than 24 hours, marking their ninth day without transmission of coronavirus over the net. 12 new instances and one death in the same period.
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported nearly 35 million global COVID-19 cases early Sunday with more than one million deaths.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia began allowing a limited number of Saudi citizens to enter the Grand Mosque in Mecca, in the first phase of the reopening of Islam’s holiest site, which closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, India took a dark step of more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, being the third country in the world to pass this mark, after the United States and Brazil, according to knowledge of Johns Hopkins University.
India’s Ministry of Health reported 100,842 deaths, while the number of infections reached 6. 47 million, adding nearly 80,000 new cases in one day. As winter and the Hindu Diwali festival approach next month, the time when the world’s most populous country can see a building in the number of cases, fitness experts said.
“We’ve noticed a recent slowdown in the viral curve, although it may be a local peak, there may be one nearby,” He told Reuters Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan. just over 7% of India’s 1. 3 billion people have been exposed to the virus, meaning collective immunity is still a long way off. Collective immunity is achieved when the maximum of a population is immune to the disease.
By the end of the year, Mukherjee said, 12. 2 million Indians may simply be infected. Propagation could be reduced, he said, through measures such as social estating, covering his face and washing his hands. coil on, that’s my hope, and we have to play long-term to prevent it from turning into a wildfire,” he told Reuters.
europe
Meanwhile, several European countries continue to fight a case outbreak, reporting one-day increases.
Russian officials said Sunday that 10499 new instances of COVID-19 had been reported in the last 24 hours. Russian news firm Tass said the first time since May 15 that the new number of instances exceeded 10,000.
Britain reported 12,872 new cases on Saturday. The government stated that the jump is partly due to technical disorders that delayed the notification of instances from September 24 to October 1,7,143, recorded on Tuesday.
France also set a new record for coronavirus infections shown saturday, nearly 17,000, approximately 5,000 more than reported on Friday. He now has only about 630,000 cases, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University. The death toll increased to 32,171. The third highest in Europe after Britain and Italy, according to Johns Hopkins.
Ireland reported 613 new cases, the maximum in one day since April, when it closed, the leading medical officer in office said Saturday. Ireland, a country of not only five million people, now has more than 37,600 cases, Johns Hopkins said.
Like most European countries, Ireland has noted a steady build-up of infections since late July and has tightened restrictions accordingly, adding a ban on all indoor restaurants and the maximum entry and exit from the capital Dublin. .
Solomon Islands
On the other side of the world, the Solomon Islands reported their first case of coronavirus. Solomons had struggled to stay loose from the fatal virus, adding up to their final border in March.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, speaking in a televised speech, said a student who recently returned from the Philippines on a repatriation flight had tested positive after 3 negatives before boarding the plane.
Sogavare assured the archipelago that no closure would be mandatory and that the government would work to bring 18 quarantined academics to Manila.