World: COVID-19 September 7: India has increased the number of cases, more than 1,000 deaths a day

As of 6 am on September 7, the world had more than 27.2 million people positive for the new coronavirus, including 886,964 deaths and more than 19 million cases recovered from acute respiratory infections COVID-19. .

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Although the US is the world leader in both cases and deaths, the number of new US infections has decreased significantly. According to Reuters, the number of cases increased again in 22/50 states, most of them in the Midwest, but this increase was not noticed much because the number of cases across the country generally decreased gradually, especially. in states that used to be hotspots like California, Florida and Texas.

Meanwhile, the epidemic is becoming uncontrollable in India as the country set a new record with 94,000 new infections as of September 6. During the past week, India had an average of over 1,000 deaths a day, according to Times of India.

India has now overtaken Brazil as the world's second most damaged country by COVID-19.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the number of COVID-19 infections is increasing at a worrying rate, though not as high as the previous epidemic peak.

On September 6, England had nearly 3,000 new positive cases. According to Health Minister Matt Hancock, "The number of cases increasing in this day is worrying", especially the majority of the patients are quite young people.

Mr. Hancock emphasized that people need to keep a safe distance as the first line of defense to prevent the spread of disease.

Medical staff test for people in a slum in Mumbai, India on September 5 - Photo: REUTERS

According to Euronews, the trend of the epidemic is increasing and focusing on people under the age of 40 is also evident in Europe. Southern and eastern European countries such as Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania had a higher number of cases in August than in the beginning of the year.

The number of infections in Croatia, Greece and Malta in the past week was higher than the previous outbreak. Belgium and Italy also experienced a rapid increase in the number of shifts, although not as much as in the previous March and April period.

France, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain are likely to face a second wave of epidemics and are working hard to curb the disease's rise.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/covid-19-ngay-7-9-an-do-tang-manh-ca-nhiem-moi-ngay-tren-1-000-ca-tu-vong-20200907060421147. htm