August 11 (UPI) – Global cases of coronavirus have exceeded 20 million infections, while the head of the World Health Organization warned that the death toll will be 750,000 by the end of the week.
The virus reached a million-dollar mark within 3 months of WHO signaling COVID-19 a global fitness emergency and reached 10 million infections 3 months later.
After 102 consecutive days without a local COVID-19 case, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Auckland, the country’s most populous city, would reinstate 3-point coronavirus restrictions for 3 days from Wednesday after 4 cases were discovered in a city. Home.
“In accordance with our precautionary approach, we will ask the inhabitants of Aucklanders to take swift action with us. Tomorrow Wednesday, August 12, at 12 p.m., we’ll move Auckland to point 3 of the restrictions,” Ardern said.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Monday that the death toll would reach 750,000 this week, but said the scenario could still be corrected.
“I need to be clear: there are green outbreaks of hope and no matter where a country, region, city or town is, it’s never too past because of the opposite of the epidemic,” he said.
“Understanding the basics provides a transparent picture of where the virus is and the targeted movements to suppress transmission and save lives,” he said in unusually positive media comments.
He also praised countries in France, Germany, South Korea and other countries that have experienced primary epidemics that have been able to engage and repress, saying that other countries are now their techniques for stifling infections.
“The chains of transmission were damaged through a combination of immediate case identification, comprehensive clinical care and good enough contact search for patients, physical distance, masking, normal hand cleaning and coughing away from others,” he said.
“If we have the virus right, we can open corporations securely,” he added.
The United States remains the top hit by the virus with more than five million contagions and 163,000 deaths, followed by Brazil with 3 million contagions and 101,000 deaths and India with 2.26 million cases causing 4 five, 2 five hundred dead.