New Delhi (NVI): More than 35.7 million people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19 while the death toll has crossed 1,048,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 24.8 million people have recovered from the disease.
In the US, the number of coronavirus cases have surpassed 7.5 million while the number of fatalities due to the deadly contagion has exceeded 2,10,000 in the country.
Brazil on Tuesday registered 41,906 new cases of Covid-19, the highest number for a single day since September 11, the health ministry said. The number of deaths rose by 819 to 147,494, the second highest death toll in the world.
Poland said it would enforce restrictions more strictly as it reported a daily record of 58 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, as well as sharp increases in the number of ventilators and hospital beds being used by Covid-19 patients.
Finland has reported its highest daily number of Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic and they now exceed the rate that Helsinki sets for other countries before their citizens are allowed to visit without being quarantined.
Furthermore, Iran will require face masks in public in the capital Tehran from Saturday, authorities said, announcing a daily record of 4,151 new coronavirus cases.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 2,828 to 3,06,086. The reported death toll rose by 16 to 9,562, the tally showed.
European countries are facing shortages of Covid-19 drug remdesivir because limited supplies are running out, with cases surging and the US having bought up most of drugmaker Gilead’s output.
Meanwhile, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said the recovery in the global economy since the spring is fragile and warned policymakers against an over-hasty withdrawal of support.
The World Health Organization has said European countries will need to “move beyond biomedical science” to overcome Covid-19 as “pandemic fatigue” and new infections rapidly rise across the continent.
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