The coronavirus has killed at least 506,818 people worldwide, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources.
The United States totals 127,322 deaths for 2.6 million cases. This is followed by Brazil (59,594 dead), the United Kingdom (43,730), Italy (34,767) and France (29,843).
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With an additional 1,199 deaths from the new coronavirus in 24 hours, the daily toll in the United States started to rise again on Tuesday. The threshold of a thousand dead had not been crossed since June 10. A heavy trend that worries American health officials.
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Warning from Doctor Fauci
From 40,000 new cases detected per day in the United States, the pandemic could jump to 100,000 if “we don’t reverse the trend“warned Anthony Fauci, director of the United States Institute of Infectious Diseases.
“Obviously we don’t have total control right now“, insisted this member of the presidential crisis cell on the coronavirus, deploring the”all or nothing“practiced by many Americans: either completely confined or”in bars, without masks, without avoiding crowds, without practicing physical distancing“.
Four American states (California, Arizona, Texas, Florida) now account for half of the new cases.
No meeting for Biden
Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden said Tuesday he would follow “doctor’s instructions“and would not hold election rallies because of the pandemic, unlike his Republican rival Donald Trump.
Aerial sector in difficulty
Airbus announced on Tuesday the abolition of around 15,000 jobs, or 11% of its workforce, and does not rule out layoffs to deal with the “unprecedented crisis“suffered by the airline industry.
About 5,100 positions will be cut in Germany, 5,000 in France, 1,700 in the United Kingdom, 900 in Spain and 1,300 on the group’s other sites worldwide, the European aircraft manufacturer said on Tuesday evening in a press release.
For its part, the Mexican airline Aeromexico, one of the most important in Latin America, announced Tuesday that it asked to file for bankruptcy in the United States to restructure its debt because of “unprecedented impact“from the Covid-19 pandemic.”This legal procedure will not interrupt operations” d’Aeromexico.
Large-scale plan in the UK
Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised Tuesday “an infrastructure revolution“with a five billion pound (5.5 billion euros) plan to revive the country’s economy.
Gross domestic product fell 2.2% in the first quarter, its worst drop since the third quarter of 1979, according to the National Statistics Office (ONS).
Vaccine: promising trial for Inovio
The American biotech company Inovio announced Tuesday encouraging preliminary results for its vaccine project against the new coronavirus, administered on forty volunteers in the United States.
According to a company press release, the vaccine caused an immune system response in 94% of the participants who followed the so-called phase 1 clinical trial, that is, with two injections four weeks apart.
Travel: the EU authorizes 15 countries
Green light for Canada and three Maghreb countries, conditionally for China but red light for the United States, Russia or Turkey: Europeans reopen their borders this Wednesday to travelers from fifteen countries whose epidemiological situation linked to the Covid-19 disease is considered to be safe enough to resume travel.
Travelers from Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay will be admitted to the EU and the Schengen area.
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