Bangkok-Brazil and India suffer from coronavirus surges, leading health professionals weakening hopes for speedy global economic recovery and new international travel in the midst of a pandemic Warns that there is.
“We are not currently on the second wave. We are in the midst of the first wave worldwide,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization.
“We are still at a stage where the disease is actually in progress,” Ryan told reporters, pointing to South America, South Asia, and other areas where infections are still rising.
In India, a record new day jump was seen in the latest new case on day 7. It reported 6,535 new infections on Tuesday and raised its total to 145,380, including 4,167 deaths.
Established in India’s poorest and most densely populated areas, the virus underscores the challenges authorities face to curb the spread of viruses for which vaccines and treatments are not yet visible.
Most of the Indian lawsuits are concentrated in Mumbai’s financial hubs, the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Infectious diseases are also increasing in the east as migrant workers left behind in the lockdown return from India’s largest city to a local village.
Nonetheless, India allowed the domestic flight to resume on Monday after a two-month hiatus, but it’s only a fraction of normal traffic levels.
WHO pour cold water in hopes that the Brazilian president, President Bolsonaro and others will resume their economies quickly, and that authorities must first test enough to curb the expansion of the pandemic. I warned you. With 375,000 coronavirus infections in Brazil and more than 23,000 deaths in the U.S. after 1.6 million, many are worried that Brazil’s true casualties are much higher. I am.
Ryan said Brazil’s “high” baud rates mean that some home-based measures should be maintained despite their negative economic impact. “You have to keep doing what you can,” he said.
However, São Paulo Governor Joan Doria denies the blockade in Brazil’s largest state economy and plans to begin deregulation on June 1.
In Rio de Janeiro, the Evangelical Bishop Marcelo Crivella mayor has designated religious institutions as “essential services.” This encourages people to stay at home and most businesses to be closed, but they can follow the rules of social distance.
The US travel ban came into effect on Tuesday for foreigners coming from Brazil, two days earlier than its original date. Does not apply to US citizens.
In Europe, the Russian government reported a record daily surge of 174 deaths on Tuesday, bringing the country’s confirmed death toll to 3,807. Russia has more than 360,000 cases of coronaviruses, the third highest in the world, with approximately 9,000 new infections registered.
The question of who can travel where and when remains an unsolved dilemma.
The Spanish Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that members of the European Union should generally agree to open borders and jointly decide on non-EU countries designated as safe for travel.
