The corona virus continues to spread in Brazil. China's president is responding to the cover-up allegations by the United States. All news can be found in the news ticker.
- The President of China dismissed the allegations of covering up the outbreak of the Coronavirus * pandemic on Monday.
- Meanwhile, China has announced billions in aid to support poorer countries.
- In Brazil , the situation escalates further.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany here as a map *. The following recommendations for Corona protective measures * are currently available.
Beijing - The cover-up allegations of the USA against China, in whose metropolis Wuhan the coronavirus * Sars-CoV-2 had broken out, are in the focus again and again. China has now announced billions in aid and has denied the cover-up allegations .
Corona virus worldwide: China announces billions in aid for poorer countries
China has made available two billion dollars (1.85 billion euros) for poorer countries over two years. President Xi Jinping announced this on Monday at the start of the World Health Organization (WHO) annual meeting . "Solidarity and cooperation are the most powerful weapons to defeat the virus," he said after the UN translation in a video that was shown at the start of the virtual session. He also called for more financial support from WHO. The United States had frozen its contributions because it accused the WHO of trusting China too much and responding too late to the corona pandemic.
Corona virus: China is defending itself against cover-up allegations
Xi also defended his country against the allegations of the Corona * pandemic. China has responded to the outbreak with openness and transparency and informed the international community as early as possible and forwarded data on the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 in good time, he emphasized.
In doing so, Xi responded to the criticism, especially from the United States , which accused China of covering up the outbreak. The United States government, the largest contributor to the WHO, accuses the UN organization of being China's mouthpiece and helping to cover up the outbreak.
Corona virus worldwide: Brazil is increasingly becoming a hotspot
In Brazil, however, the situation is getting worse. The country is slowly but surely becoming a corona hotspot.
More than 240,000 infections have now been registered, and around 16,000 people have died as a result of Covid-19 , the newspaper "Estado de São Paulo" reported on Sunday evening (local time). Brazil has overtaken Italy and Spain in terms of the number of infected people *.
Nevertheless, President Jair Bolsonaro continues to reject all protective measures and downplay the pandemic as "little flu". Most recently, he had been celebrated by hundreds of followers, contrary to the Corona protective measures *.
Meanwhile, research * for a drug * and a vaccine is advancing worldwide.
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