“The epidemic in the capital is serious and complex,” he said Xu Hejian, the spokesman for the capital. Yesterday, the government decided to put in isolation the whole county of Anxin, about 140 kilometers from Beijing, where 400 thousand people live and 14 cases have been identified: we leave only for urgent needs and one for family to do the shopping.
China is not the only country in the world to face a new upsurge in contagion: coronavirus continues to be dangerous, in some American states it has started to spread again with worrying percentages. Johns Hopkins, who keeps an updated map of the pandemic, says that the cases have exceeded 10 million globally, the victims are 500 thousand.
Coronavirus worldwide, over ten million infections. Close to 500 thousand dead
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In the United States, which has the highest number of infections (2,520,984) and deaths (125,630) in the world – the virus is moving at double speed: it regresses in the North, runs in the southern States, in Florida, in Texas, in Arizona. Florida in particular hit a new high on Saturday with 9,585 new patients and 24 dead in 24 hours. The governor Ron DeSantis, republican, who had pushed to reopen the state when the number of infections was still high, has partially retraced his steps, alarmed by a “real explosion” of the disease among young people: some beaches will remain closed for the holidays on July 4th , Independence Day, and all commercial activities will have to follow stricter rules. The governor of California orders the closing of the bars in Los Angeles.
The American vice president Mike Pence, who runs the task force against coronavirus, says that the resurgence of the virus does not depend on hasty reopening – in America there is a close political struggle around the pandemic, even the masks have become a partisan issue – but it has canceled the events of Trump’s reelection campaign in Florida and Arizona and had to listen on Friday Anthony Fauci, the consultant immunologist at the White House, say on television that the increase in new infections is perhaps due to the fact that “it reopened too early”.
The United States, Latin America and Europe each have 25% of cases in the world, but the pandemic has now entered a new phase, infections are multiplying in India and also in Australia and New Zealand which seemed free from Viruses have emerged, although limited outbreaks.
In Europe the situation is patchy: yesterday for the first time in Madrid, which was the Spanish city most affected by the virus, there were no deaths, while in the United Kingdom the government has made it known that Leicester could be the first cities facing a local lockdown. In the first half of June, more than 600 people in the city tested positive and the outbreaks that developed in some food businesses in the area forced the municipality to close five schools.
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