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The incidence of new coronavirus in the world is worsening, approaching about half a million infections, at a time when many countries are actively seeking to find a vaccine for this virus, which has paralyzed the daily life of more than 3 billion people around the world.
The virus, which has spread to the world since last December, infected 481,300 people in 182 countries in the world, while killing about 22,000 people.
The victims of the virus are distributed on various continents in the world, but the continent of Europe is the most affected by this epidemic, as it has recorded to date 258068 cases.
Among the most affected European countries due to the virus is Italy, where the death toll reached 8165 cases out of 80,539 cases, while the Italian authorities said that 9362 people have recovered from the virus.
Followed by Italy in terms of damage Spain announced the Ministry of Health in which today's high death toll from the virus from 3434 to 4089 case, pointing also to the high number of people living in the country from 47 610 to 56 188 case, while France recorded 1331 deaths and 25 233 injured while injuries and deaths were distributed to The rest of the European countries.
And at a time when the European branch of the World Health Organization announced "encouraging signs" of slowing the spread of the virus on European soil, although the situation is still serious, Standard & Poor's credit rating agency announced that the Corona crisis will cause a contraction of 2 percent in the euro area and Britain this year while you expect Austria decreased by 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product in the current year.
In Asia, China, where the virus first appeared late last year, was the most affected, with 3287 deaths and 81285 cases, while it did not record any infections during the last week.
It came Iran after China in terms of the number of cases where the record where until noon today 29 thousand and 406 injuries, while he died 2234 case recovered 10 thousand and 457 people and injuries were recorded in many Asian countries such as South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India and others.
At a time when injuries are still limited in African countries, the United States of America has witnessed the largest number of injuries in the North American continent where 70 thousand cases have been recorded to date, according to Johns Hopkins University, of which more than a thousand cases died, including 385 deaths in the state New York alone.
The Corona virus epidemic was the main topic of the emergency summit of the leaders of the Group of Twenty held today via video and who stressed their commitment to face its repercussions with a united front pledging to pump five trillion dollars into the global economy, pointing out that the process of dealing with the virus requires a strong, coordinated, and broad-based international response based on Scientific evidence and the principle of international solidarity.