PARIS (AFP) - The global death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 800,000, according to an AFP count on Saturday (Aug 22), with numerous countries ramping up restrictions in an effort to battle an eruption of new cases.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - The global death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 800,000, according to an AFP count on Saturday , with numerous countries ramping up restrictions in an effort to battle an eruption of new cases.
Latin America is the region the most affected, while more than half the global fatalities have been reported in the hardest-hit United States, Brazil, Mexico and India. " utilising the available tools to the maximum and hoping that we can have additional tools like vaccines, I think we can finish it in a shorter time than the 1918 flu."
"We are at a very precarious stage where we could see the beginning of a nationwide second wave," Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said at a press briefing. 'CORONAVIRUS CATASTROPHE?' Elsewhere, Lebanon launched two weeks of measures on Friday including nighttime curfews, as the country is still dealing with the fallout from a huge explosion in Beirut that killed scores of people.Officials fear Lebanon's fragile health system would struggle to cope with a further spike in Covid-19 cases, especially after some hospitals near the port were damaged in the explosion.
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