News Desk :
Deaths toll from Covid-19 experienced globally 4,14,430 while infected 73,56,007 in 213 countries and territories and recovered 36,29,494, according to worldometer.
So far, 1,14,185 Americans died while total cases 20,46,514, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. So, any sign of an increase in infections alarms the entire nation.
Almost half of the 50 US states were showing upward trends in coronavirus cases as nationwide anti-racism protests abruptly ended social-distancing, the US media warned on Monday.
About 20 of these 22 states had seen decreases in recent days, and eight states were holding steady, showed statistics collected by CNN.
“Reopening states are blindsided by protests,” observed The New York Times, while pointing out that the outrage over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last month has had a negative impact on precautions against the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
CNN statistics showed that Florida had seen the biggest spikes in new Covid-19 cases where the number of daily new infections increased by roughly 46 per cent over the past week.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 79 on Tuesday against 65 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases was broadly stable at 283 against 280 on Monday.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 34,043, the agency said, the fourth highest in the world after those of the United States, Britain and Brazil.
The Civil Protection Agency said that of the 79 newly recorded deaths, 32 had actually occurred in previous days in the central region of Abruzzo, but had not previously been reported by Abruzzo’s authorities.
The total number of confirmed cases in Italy since the start of its outbreak now amounts to 235,561, the seventh highest global tally behind those of the United States, Russia, Brazil, Spain, Britain and India. People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 32,872 from 34,730 the day before.
The northern region of Lombardy, where the outbreak was first identified, remains by far the worst affected of Italy’s 20 regions, accounting for 192 of the 283 new cases reported on Tuesday.
There were 263 people in intensive care on Tuesday, down from 283 on Monday, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 168,646 were declared recovered against 166,584 a day earlier.
The agency said 2.676 million people had been tested for the virus as of Tuesday against 2.643 million on Monday, out of a population of around 60 million.
The Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare reported no new deaths from COVID-19 for a second straight day Tuesday.
According to the ministry, a total of 27,136 people have died from COVID-19 in Spain. The figure is the same as those published on Sunday and Monday.
The ministry also informed that 50 people lost their lives to the virus in the past seven days, 23 of them in the region of Madrid. The seven-day death toll is down from the 56 reported Monday.
Tuesday, however, saw a rise in the number of new cases of COVID-19 detected by PCR tests, which discover if the coronavirus is active in the body. The ministry registered 84 new infections, up from 48 reported 24 hours earlier.
The ministry also informed that only 12 patients have been admitted to intensive care wards in Spain in the past seven days.
As of Tuesday, Spain has registered a total of 241,966 infections.
