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Corona virus infections and new deaths continue to be recorded in a number of countries in the world, while the United States recorded the highest number of confirmed infections with the Corona virus in the world, while France announced an unprecedented rise in the number of deaths within one day.
According to the New York Times, the United States has surpassed China in the number of coronavirus infections, reaching 81,321 cases, including more than a thousand deaths, shattering the numbers of China, Italy or any other country, according to the data it collected.
The newspaper pointed out that the scientists warned that the United States will one day become "the country most affected by the pandemic of the virus", explaining that "although the American medical system has a reputation as one of the best systems in the world, but a series of errors and missed opportunities hampered citizens' response to warnings Which led to an increase in the number of people with corona. ”
The newspaper indicated that among these reasons, "the failure to take the epidemic seriously, the acute shortage of masks and protective equipment for doctors and nurses in contact with patients and other gaps."
It is noteworthy that the slow response from the American administration to the Corona virus threat reinforced widespread accusations by US President Donald Trump of deliberately delaying decisive decisions to confront the virus, despite realizing the seriousness of the matter.
For its part, the French Ministry of Health stated that the total deaths due to Corona in the country rose to 1696 after recording 365 deaths, an increase of 27 percent compared to yesterday, while the number of injured reached 29,155 people, an increase of 16 percent.
The Director General of Health Affairs in France, Jerome Salomon, described that the health situation "continues to deteriorate in the country despite the measures taken", expecting a significant increase in the number of deaths soon "after the authorities start collecting information about deaths among people in nursing homes."
In turn, the British government announced that 115 people died in the country today after being infected with the Corona virus, bringing the total number of deaths to 578 people, while the number of confirmed cases reached 11,658, up from 9,529 yesterday.
For its part, the Turkish health authorities announced that the death toll of Corona has risen to 75 people, with 16 new deaths recorded, while the death toll has increased to 3 thousand and 629 cases during the past 24 hours.
In Greece, the health authorities announced that 71 cases of HIV infection and 4 deaths were registered in the country, bringing the total number of people infected to 892, and the death toll to 26.
In turn, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced that it had registered 39 new cases of coronavirus and three deaths, bringing the total to 495 cases, including 24 deaths.
The ministry said in a statement that 102 of the total injured recovered from the disease and were discharged from the Quarantine Hospital.
In Jordan, the Ministry of Health announced the increase in the number of infections in Corona to 212 after recording 40 new injuries, 26 of them from Irbid Governorate, while the Jordanian Minister of State for Information Affairs Amjad Al-Adayleh announced the isolation of Irbid from the rest of the regions and governorates of the country.
To that, the Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, issued a decision calling for additional measures to be taken in the context of toughening measures to combat the Corona epidemic, which included the suspension of work between 7 pm and 5 am in all shops and manufacturing, storage and sale of foodstuffs of all kinds except for mills, ovens, pharmacies and factories that Produce medical supplies and prevent going out into the streets from tomorrow.