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Paris – The World Health Organization has suggested that others do not depress thegese, as the new coronavirus pandemic marked a terrible milestone this week, and the world surpassed 20 million reported cases of infection with the small killer who has shaken life almost everywhere.
As of 10:15 p.m. Greenwich Average Time on Monday, there were 20,002,577 cases, with 733,842 deaths recorded, according to an AFP count from official sources.
At some other staggering milestone, the death toll is expected to exceed 750,000 in a matter of days as the global fitness crisis that began a backward last year in China progresses.
“Behind these statistics, there is much pain and suffering. But to be clear: there are green outbreaks of hope,” said WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“It’s never too past because of the opposite of the epidemic,” he added.
He gave examples of countries that had taken strong action against COVID-19, such as Rwanda and New Zealand, which on Monday announced their goal of opening a virus-free “travel bubble” with the Cook Islands.
While much of the world is stuck in a cycle of discouraging epidemics and economically crushing blockages, all eyes are on the vaccine race.
A WHO survey indicated that 165 vaccine applicants were being developed worldwide, six of whom have reached Phase 3 of the clinical assessment.
But WHO Director Michael Ryan warned that a vaccine “is the only component of the response,” calling for polio and measles diseases whose vaccines have not been completely eradicated.
“You want to supply this vaccine to a population that needs it and request it,” he said.
Europe feels the heat
Infections have increased alarmingly in Western Europe, which has also been suffocating due to a heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit).
The skyful heat caused crowds to flock to the beaches this weekend despite fitness warnings about the threat of infection.
In the Paris region, other people over the age of 11 are now required to wear a mask in crowded spaces and tourist spots.
These come with the banks of the Seine and more than a hundred streets of the French capital.
Marion, 24, from central Paris, said the mask was “restrictive” but obligatory “if we need a moment.”
“A whole moment of blocking,” he added.
Several French cities have already taken action, as well as parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain.
In Berlin, thousands of young people returned to school on Monday after the summer holidays, dressed in masks, which are mandatory in non-unusual spaces such as schoolyards.
Greece, for its part, announced a night curfew for restaurants and bars in some of its main tourist destinations after the accumulation of new cases.
In Italy, peaks in the number of recorded through their neighbors have triggered an alarm.
“France, Spain and the Balkans … Italy is surrounded by contagion,” italian health minister Roberto Speranza said.
It’s another story in Pakistan, which allowed all restaurants and parks to reopen Monday after the country saw a drop in new cases for several weeks.
Historic milestones in the U.S. And Brazil
By Monday night, the United States, the world’s most affected country, had recorded 163,370 deaths and 5,085,821 cases of virus infection, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
With the number of cases exceeding one million on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent in the presidential election, Joe Biden, tweeted that the number “assaulted the brain and breaks the heart.”
The figure came when Trump accused Trump of breaking the letter by unilaterally extending an aid program against the virus.
The package, announced through Trump Saturday after talks between Republican lawmakers and Democrats crashed into a wall, was “absurdly unconstitutional,” senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi told CNN.
But while the world’s largest economy is still suffering to get out of a massive hole, Democrats are skeptical of any legal challenge to an aid program that they say is seriously inadequate.
After the United States, Brazil has the maximum number of cases, and over the weekend is the country where 100,000 people are killed.
President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the viral threat. After Brazil’s most recent milestone, the country’s most-watched television channel, Globo, asked, “Has the President of the Republic done his duty?”
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