The United States, the country hardest hit by COVID-19, recorded 1,88,858 more cases and 1,596 more deaths on Friday.
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New York has raced to cut off a second wave of coronavirus infections, and a senior World Health Organization (WHO) expert has warned that growing public mistrust risks rendering even the most effective treatments for it unnecessary. the pandemic.
Bars and clubs in the Big Apple, the epicenter of the spring outbreak in the United States, have been ordered to close at 10 p.m. Friday and the state governor has warned that schools may move to the teaching only online from Monday.
Infections are on the rise across America and Europe as governments are forced to take more drastic measures despite fears of devastation to their economies.
The disease has claimed nearly 1.3 million lives worldwide and infected nearly 53 million since it emerged in China in December.
Even with a vaccine set to be approved soon, the head of the WHO immunization department has warned that misinformation and mistrust leading to people’s acceptance of scientific progress could hamper its effectiveness.
“We are not going to be successful as a world in controlling the pandemic with the use of vaccines as one of the tools unless people are willing to get vaccinated,” Kate O’Brien told the AFP.
Lebanon entered a new two-week lockdown on Saturday after reported infections crossed the 100,000 mark, with hospitals in the crisis-ravaged country nearing full capacity.
Virus restrictions forced Hong Kong’s traditionally loud and colorful annual gay pride parade on Saturday.
Across India, millions of people have ignored social distancing advice and have gathered to pray in temples or shop for Diwali, the festival of light.
‘No lockdown’: Trump
In his first public address since being declared the loser in the Nov. 3 election, Donald Trump on Friday touted the medical breakthroughs that have taken place under his leadership, but said he remained firmly opposed to further lockdowns.
He predicted that a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which the companies say is 90% effective in trials so far, would receive emergency approval “very soon.”
The United States, the country hardest hit by COVID-19, recorded 1,88,858 more cases and 1,596 more deaths on Friday, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
“Thanksgiving will undoubtedly lead to another massive explosion of cases if people don’t take it seriously,” said Michael Mina, a Harvard epidemiologist.
But Trump, who has long opposed measures that block the economy, said his stance remained unchanged.
New anti-virus measures took effect in Ukraine on Saturday, and all non-essential businesses were ordered to remain closed over the weekend.
Officials in Kiev withdrew from a nationwide lockdown, admitting that the country’s already battered economy could not handle it.
Even the partial restrictions have sparked protests in Kiev, as people around the world grow weary of restrictions on daily life.
In an Ifop survey in France, 60% of those polled admitted to having flouted the country’s latest lockdown rules at least once by inventing a false excuse to go out or meet up with family and friends.
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