The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi Wang Yu intern Wu Sifan
The global COVID-19 epidemic continues to develop, with india increasing the number of confirmed cases by day to more than 78,000, once again setting a record for new confirmed cases in a single day.
According to incomplete statistics from the surging news (www.thepaper.cn), as of 19:00 Beijing time on August 30, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia outside China exceeded 25 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 840,000.
The number of new confirmed cases abroad exceeded 253,000 in a single day, and more than 5,200 new deaths abroad in a single day.
India ranks third in the world in terms of the cumulative number of confirmed cases, and the epidemic situation is still grim, with more than 78,000 new confirmed cases in a single day, once again setting a record for the country's new cases in a single day. According to the "Times of India" reported on the 29th, india has accumulated more than 87,000 medical staff infected with the new crown virus, of which 573 died.
According to CCTV News reported on the 30th, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs issued an announcement on the 29th local time to introduce the implementation rules for further unsealing of india. The city subway will start operating from September 7; except for some strictly controlled areas, it will continue to be locked down until September 30, and other areas will basically open one after another.
Following the emergence of secondary infection cases in China, Europe and the United States, the Institute of Microbiology of the University of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador, said that the institute confirmed the first case of secondary infection in Ecuador. The institute compared the gene sequences of the viruses infected twice in the patients, and the results showed that the viruses infected twice were different strains.
At present, the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases in Brazil has exceeded 3.84 million, ranking second in the world, second only to the United States. According to Xinhua News Agency, on the 28th local time, João Doria, the governor of São Paulo State, the most serious epidemic in Brazil, said that the number of new hospitalizations, new confirmed cases and new deaths in the state has recently declined, and Sao Paulo State has passed the most difficult moment of the epidemic. However, he said that it is not yet possible to take it lightly, nor can the quarantine measures be relaxed, and the people still need to take the epidemic seriously.
According to CNN reported on the 29th, the German capital Berlin broke out again on the same day against the government's epidemic prevention measures, tens of thousands of people participated in the protest, including many far-right groups and members of the US right-wing conspiracy theory organization QAnon. The demonstrators waved slogans such as "COVID-19 is a false alarm" and "scam", and most of the participants did not wear masks and did not maintain social distancing.
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