Hastily lifting the ban, epidemic situation repeated
According to a report on the website of the French newspaper "le figaro" on June 10, some countries that think they have escaped from the storm are facing worrying epidemic recurrence problems due to the relaxation of public vigilance and the government's haste to lift the ban.
In Iran, local officials have been warning of the danger of a second wave of the epidemic for days. After the epidemic reached its lowest level in Iran on May 2, the government relaxed restrictions to give the economy a break, causing the number of infections to rise again. On Monday, local time, 2043 confirmed cases and 70 deaths occurred in Iran. Facing the new threats, the local government called on the public to strictly abide by the measures of wearing masks in public places.
According to the report, in Iran's neighboring Pakistan, WHO called on the Pakistani government to take measures to ban foot in some parts of the country. Pakistan announced on June 2 that it had completely unsealed a record number of infections, adding 100 new deaths each day. WHO believes that the reason for the sharp increase in cases is the weak monitoring system and the small number of artificial respiration machines.
The situation on the other side of the Persian Gulf is not reassuring either. The number of infected people in Saudi Arabia has crossed the 100,000 threshold. Since Saudi Arabia relaxed its foot ban, the number of daily infections has exceeded 3,000. This situation has brought serious uncertainties to the Hajj pilgrimage scheduled for the end of July.
The report pointed out that the new coronavirus is also making a comeback in Israel. At the end of May, the number of infected people rose again after the health prevention and control measures were relaxed. Some teaching institutions have become a source of concentrated infection. More than a dozen schools were closed. Israel's health minister believes that the infection is increasing seriously and several principles such as wearing masks must be observed.
Faced with an increase in the number of infections, the latest country to express concern is Greece. Greece reported 97 new cases on Monday local time, with nearly a third of the new cases involving foreign tourists. The Greek Minister of Civil Protection warned: "Whoever believes we have got rid of the virus is mistaken."
Dissemination in Africa Accelerated
According to a report by Agence France-Presse in Geneva on June 11, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Mazadiso Moeti, pointed out at a video briefing hosted by the United Nations Correspondents Association in Geneva that it took 98 days to reach the first 100,000 confirmed cases in Africa and only 18 days to reach 200,000 cases. "Although Africa accounts for less than 3% of the global total, the epidemic is clearly accelerating."
According to AFP statistics, as of 11: 00 GMT on the 11th, Africa had a total of 210519 confirmed cases and 5635 deaths.
Moetti said that in Africa, "the epidemic is still concentrated in and around the capital city, but we are seeing more and more cases spread to all provinces." In most countries on the African continent, the virus entered the capital through international flights from Europe.
Moeiti explained that "out of 54 African countries, 10 are pushing up the number of cases" and these countries account for 80% of the total number of cases.
Agence France-Presse pointed out that South Africa accounted for nearly 25% of the total number of cases on the African continent. More than 70% of the deaths occurred in five countries: South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan.
Moetti said: "The number of reported cases in most countries is still less than 1,000." Moetti said that although there may be some asymptomatic and mild cases that have not been found, WHO does not believe that Africa has the problem of missing a large number of severe cases and deaths.
The report pointed out that compared with other continents, Africa's population is relatively young and has accumulated experience in dealing with the epidemic, which is believed to be the reason why Africa has not seen as high a death toll as other continents.
America Becomes Epidemic Center
In addition, according to a report by Latin American News Agency Geneva on June 11, the World Health Organization said that on the 11th, the Americas had become the continent with the largest number of newly crowned pneumonia deaths, with a cumulative death toll of 185,800, surpassing Europe with a cumulative death toll of 185,500.
As a result, the Americas became the epicenter of the epidemic, as early as a few weeks ago, there were more than 3.48 million confirmed cases in the Americas, the largest number in the world.
The Latin American News Agency said that the United States is still the country with the most serious epidemic in the region, with a cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeding 2 million so far. The second most seriously affected country is Brazil.
According to the data of the World Health Organization, 90% of the patients died from the new coronavirus infection in the world are from America and Europe.