07/26/2020 - 19:02
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The coronavirus pandemic exceeded 16 million infections this Sunday and was approaching 650,000 deaths according to the permanent global count carried by the American Johns Hopkins University (JHU), while Spain suffers the social and economic effects of the outbreaks, which are also of concern. to the rest of Europe, and the numbers in Iran, Russia and India continue to rise , in addition to Africa and the American continent.
Specifically, the JHU's balance set the number of cases at 16,133,849 people and 646,837 deaths.
The first two countries in the table of infections and deaths are the United States, with 4,212,057 and 146,732, respectively, and Brazil, with 2,394,513 and 86,449.
Then, in confirmed cases, India, Russia and South Africa continue, and in the number of deaths, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Italy.
Johns Hopkins University Map: The Coronavirus in the World This Sunday.
In an attempt to mitigate the social and economic effects of the decisions of the United Kingdom and Norway to impose quarantine on travelers from Spain, and despite the fact that the daily data adds concern, the Iberian Government claimed to have controlled the outbreaks of Covid-19 .
The figures for Catalonia, which registered 886 new infections, caused the massive cancellation of the reservations that had been made since the economic reopening and the closure of some hotels, the director general of the Barcelona Hotels guild, Manel Casal, told the agency. from EFE news.
Like Norway and the United Kingdom, Italy also vetoed flights , but from and to 14 countries outside the European Union, including Chile, Peru, Brazil, Panama and the Dominican Republic, it ordered quarantine to those who have spent the last two weeks in Romania and Bulgaria, and its health adviser, Alessio D'Amato, announced that tests will be carried out on those who arrive by bus from "risk" countries, without specifying which ones.
Italy reported five deaths, like the last two days, and 255 new infections, according to data released by the Ministry of Health, bringing the total figures to 35,107 and 246,199, respectively.
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The rise of Covid-19 infections in Belgium, which jumped 71% in the last week and mostly in the north of the country, in the province of Antwerp, worried the local government, which on Monday will define additional containment measures, such as reducing the contact bubble to 10 people. Belgium already has 65,727 affected and 9,821 dead.
Likewise, India reported 48,661 in the last 24 hours and 705 new deaths.
Another alarming figure regarding the pandemic is the one thrown by Russia, which confirmed 5,756 new infections, most of them in Moscow , and 77 deaths, bringing the totals to 812,485 and 13,269, respectively, according to the Russian news agency TASS. , while 198,996 people receive treatment and in the last 24 hours 3,110 recovered.
Meanwhile, in Iran the detection of 2,333 patients and 216 fatalities in the last 24 hours marks a strong rebound in the country after the start of the deconfusion process and places the totals at 291,172 and 15,700, respectively.
President Hasan Rohani this week blamed the spike in cases on the poor application of prevention and security regulations announced by the authorities and not on the process of reopening the economy, according to the Iranian news agency Mehr, quoted by Europa Press.
A quick test in Califormia: the United States is the country with the most infected in the world. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Along the same lines, Hong Kong could again take distancing measures and tighten the regulation that allows dining in restaurants after reporting 128 new cases - for the fifth consecutive day it had over a hundred new infections - of which 103 were through of local transmission and 25 from abroad, and 18 dead.
Furthermore, more than a hundred bars in the New York area were sanctioned this weekend for failing to comply with security measures against Covid-19, but the state that suffered the most from the pandemic hit last spring continues "progressing" amid the alarming rate of contagion in the rest of the US, according to its authorities.
Meanwhile, in Mexico the Catholic churches opened their doors to the faithful to celebrate, after several months, face-to-face masses, and on this first day the prayers were especially directed to the memory of the more than 43,000 people killed by the pandemic.
The United Kingdom imposed a quarantine on all travelers from Spain. EFE / Ramón de la Rocha
In the region, Chile, the third country with the most cases in the region after Brazil and Peru, celebrated that infections were down 29% in the last 14 days by providing the daily report, which included 2,198 new positives and 92 deaths, which Raises the total figures to 345,790 and 9,112, respectively.
In neighboring Bolivia, the vice minister of Citizen Security, Wilson Santamaría, reported that he had tested positive for a coronavirus, so that there were 12 senior officials of the de facto government infected, including President Jeanine Áñez.
Bolivia accumulated 68,281 confirmed cases , of which 2,535 people died and 20,951 have already been cured, according to the latest official balance, released on Saturday.
In Peru, another country badly hit by the pandemic (the third in South America in number of positives), the Ministry of Health reported that 2,700,707 people in Lima and Callao would be infected, which represents 25.3% of the population of these regions, according to the results of the prevalence study carried out by the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Diseases (CDC) and the National Institute of Health (INS).
Ecuador reached 80,694 infections, that is to say 658 more cases than yesterday, according to the official balance that also accounts for 8,954 deaths, while Quito remains the epicenter of the country of the pandemic and is experiencing a sanitary collapse.