The Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread over the American continent and is experiencing resurgences from foci located in Europe, illustrated by the reconfiguration on Tuesday of two German cantons and by the contamination of the world number 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic.
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 473,475 people worldwide since China officially reported the disease in December, according to reports by AFP from official sources at 9:00 p.m.
More than 9,161,460 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 4,455,700 are now considered cured. This number of diagnosed cases, however, only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections. Some countries only test severe cases, others use testing as a priority for tracing, and many poor countries have limited screening capacity. Since the count carried out Monday at 9:00 p.m., 4,333 new deaths and 137,577 new cases have been recorded worldwide.
The countries with the most new deaths are the United States with 807 new deaths, Mexico (759) and Brazil (654). The United States, which recorded its first death linked to the coronavirus in early February, is the country most affected in terms of number of deaths and cases, with 120,913 deaths for 2,328,562 cases. At least 640,198 people were declared cured.
EUROPE
Overwhelmed in the spring by the disease, Europe completes to lift the restrictions, faced with the decline of the epidemic. At United Kingdom, the most affected country on the continent, pubs, hotels and restaurants, but also hairdressers, museums or amusement parks, cinemas, libraries and outdoor sports facilities will reopen on July 4, in England alone.
But in Germany, more than 600,000 residents of two cantons were reconfigured Tuesday after the outbreak of contamination in a slaughterhouse, in the aftermath of a partial reinstatement of restrictions in the Lisbon region, which raises concerns for the tourist season in Portugal.
In Italy, medical authorities are concerned about a possible second wave, due to the general relaxation of the population. And in Catalonia, the regional government has reversed its decision to authorize the reopening of dance floors in nightclubs, only allowing people who already know each other to dance and only in restaurants or hotels.
ASIA
This “second wave” of contamination, the South Korea admitted Tuesday to face it since mid-May, with 35 to 50 new cases daily, mainly in Seoul and its surroundings.
Potential vector of large-scale contamination, the hajj, the great annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and one of the five pillars of Islam, will take place in July, but will be reduced to its simplest form.
Only a thousand pilgrims will be allowed to participate and none from abroad, while what is traditionally one of the largest religious gatherings on the planet attracted in 2019 2.5 million worshipers from around the world.
“My hope of going (to Mecca) was so great,” Kamariah Yahya, a 68-year-old Indonesian woman, responded, sadly, “but what to do? It is the will of Allah, it is fate. “
AMERICA
On the American continent, the contagion is not weakening. To the United States, the country most grieving by Covid-19, the toll exceeded 120,000 on Monday and the White House chief immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said “really” worried about the outbreaks “worrying” the number of cases in several American states.
Donald Trump praised Tuesday from Arizona the effectiveness of the wall built on part of the border between the United States and Mexico, assuring that it had been very effective in combating the spread of Covid-19. “He stopped the Covid, he stopped everything,” he said.
In Latin America, the current epicenter of the epidemic, the Brazil remains the second most affected country in the world (51,271 dead, and a judge forced President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask “in all public places”, which he did very randomly.
The Honduras, a small country of 9 million inhabitants, is submerged by the dead, officially 300 in number but probably five times more numerous, estimates Jesus Moran, secretary of the Association of Undertakers. In the north of the country, “bury at night between ten and twelve corpses” and in the most miserable neighborhoods, people die at home without being tested, he said.
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