450 dead in twenty-four hours in the United States, the lowest balance in two months

Even though Europe and part of the rest of the world have started to slowly return to normal, the coronavirus continues to spread. The number of confirmed cases worldwide, now over seven million, has increased by more than 100,000 in nine of the last ten days, and even by 136,000 on Sunday – “The highest balance sheet so far”, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday June 8. More than 400,000 people died on Sunday.

The time has come, however, to relax restrictions, with the aim of resuming hard-hit savings everywhere. After almost eleven years of growth, the United States is now in recession, a committee on Monday communicated with reference. And the whole world is now going through its worst recession in one hundred and fifty years, according to the World Bank.

• 450 deaths in twenty-four hours in the United States

The epidemic has killed an additional 450 in twenty-four hours in the United States, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University, a daily toll at its lowest in about two months. However, we will have to wait to find out if Monday’s figures are confirmed over time, because the university’s data, continuously updated, tend to mechanically decrease at the end of the weekend depending on the feedback sent by the local health authorities. .

The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country is 110,900, and more than 1,955,000 cases have been reported, according to university figures. The United States lamented nearly 500 daily deaths by the end of March, until it registered more than 3,000 deaths in twenty-four hours in mid-April.

In parallel, the city of New York began its deconfinement this Monday. The reopening of this metropolis to shutdown since March 22 promises to be very gradual, limited in a first phase to construction and the manufacturing sector. Within a fortnight, the authorities hope to move on to a second phase which will make it possible to eat on the terrace or to return to the hairdresser – but not yet in the dining rooms or show rooms.

• Brazil’s epidemic still virulent

Brazil recorded Monday 679 new deaths and 15,654 new cases of contamination caused by the coronavirus, according to the National Council of Secretaries of State, which bring together public health officials in each of the constituent states of the Brazilian federation.

The council, which is not part of the ministry of health, started to publish its own figures since this weekend, after the ministry removed from a public Internet site several months of statistics and stopped publishing the assessment global epidemic.

According to the court, the total number of Covid deaths is 37,134 and the total number of cases of infection is 707,412 sick.

• Timid resumption of activity in Central America

The Central American countries have started a partial resumption of activity in their bloodless economies, despite the continued spread of the new coronavirus.

After almost three months of confinement, the Honduras has started “An intelligent reopening”, by imposing on companies security measures and employee presence quotas, from 60% to 20%, adjusted according to the regions at the different contagion rates.

At Panama, the hardest hit country in central america with more than 16,000 screened patients and 386 deaths, the government, which had relaxed restrictions, backed down and reinstated the system of alternating days of men and women.

• Deconfinement is confirmed in Europe

In Spain, which has registered more than 27,000 deaths but has managed to contain the virus in recent weeks, the football championship resumes on Wednesday after three months of interruption. Players must enter the masked and gloved stadiums.

Shops in the Madrid and Barcelona regions, the most affected by the pandemic, were able to reopen on Monday, but at 40% of their capacity. And the beaches of Barcelona can reopen for swimming.

In Belgium, bars and restaurants reopened on Monday morning, and the famous Brussels Union Brewery was taken over.

The Poland, also in the process of deconfinement, recorded an outbreak of cases during the weekend (+1,151). Among those infected, almost two-thirds are employees of Silesian coal mines and their relatives. The mines have been temporarily closed.

At United Kingdom, which recorded 40,597 deaths, including 55 on Monday – the lowest daily balance since March 22 – deconfinement is done in drops.

Anyone arriving in the United Kingdom from abroad must observe from Monday a fortnight of fourteen days, a measure with contested effectiveness which distresses the aviation and tourism sectors.

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