The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi Wang Jiwei intern Wu Sifan
The global COVID-19 epidemic continues to develop, India still ranks first in the world's new single-day cases, and the epidemic in Europe has rebounded significantly.
According to the incomplete statistics of the surging news (www.thepaper.cn), as of 19:00 Beijing time on September 6, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia outside China is close to 27 million, and the cumulative number of deaths is close to 880,000.
Compared with yesterday, there were more than 264,000 new confirmed cases and more than 4,500 new deaths in a single day abroad.
India's new confirmed cases in a single day once again exceeded 87,000, ranking first in the world. India has a cumulative confirmed case of more than 4.11 million, close to Brazil, which ranks second in the world.
According to the US "Washington Post" reported on the 5th, the United States infectious disease experts warned that this autumn and winter, the United States is likely to usher in the second wave of the epidemic outbreak, the peak of the epidemic is expected to come after the election day on November 3.
The epidemic in many European countries rebounded, and France confirmed more than 8,000 new cases for two consecutive days. According to Reuters news on the 5th, French Health Minister Wei Lang said on the same day that an average of 55 patients in France this week were treated in intensive care units every day, and the current number of hospitalizations probably reflected the increase in the number of new crown infections two weeks ago. This means that as the outbreak rebounds, the number of severe cases will increase accordingly over the next 15 days.
According to Yonhap News Agency reported on the 6th, the South Korean government decided to extend the strengthened epidemic prevention measures implemented for the tokyo metropolitan area for one week to the 13th, and extended the scope of the dine-in ban to chain pastry shops and shaved ice shops from the 7th. The Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters of south Korea said that although the epidemic situation in the metropolitan area has eased, there are still small-scale cluster infection incidents in hospitals, hotels and other places, and the risk of resurgence of the epidemic should not be underestimated.
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