Coronavirus Infects 17 Million People Globally

Johns Hopkins University, USA, reported that the number of people infected with the novel Coronavirus in the world, since the pandemic began, reached by Thursday morning to 17,029 million people.

This means that the index has increased during the last 24 hours, by 347,124 cases on Wednesday, the increase in the number of infections was 210,460.

The number of deaths due to COVID-19 disease in the world reached 667,011 cases, an increase - 7934 during the last day, compared to 5085 deaths on Wednesday. Nearly 10 million people have recovered from the disease.

According to university data, more than one million people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic in three countries, the United States, Brazil and India.

In the United States, a total of 44,269,800 infections (increase during yesterday - 74,985) were discovered, 150,713 people died (daytime increase - 1475), and 1.4 million people were treated for the disease.

In Brazil, the number of infected people reached 255,265 people, 90134 patients died.

India remains third in terms of the number of patients with COVID-19, as the number of patients reached 1583792, the number of deaths reached 34,981, and more than a million patients were cured.

On the other hand, the United Nation has issued a report draws a dreadful image of the world economy.

The report warns of precedent rates of unemployment and poverty in the world during the period to come as an expected fallout of the Coronavirus which threatens the planet now.

The deadly virus ( known also as the COVID-19) has infected more than three million people in the world so far.

The UN report on April indicated that about 195 million persons will lose jobs due to the Coronavirus.

This leads to more poverty and other social problems in the world. Experts of the UN stressed that economic crisis related to the COVID-19 pushes the world economy towards depression like the great Depression that hit the world economy in the end of the 30's of 20th century.

The report went on to say that the small and medium-sized firms, farmers, refugees, immigrants are the most vulnerable categories which inflicted by the impacts of the Coronavirus.

The economists warn that the world is about to enter into a new passive depression over the period to come.

The envisioned slump will be the most dangerous since the 1930s.

Many governments across the globe have ordered their national companies to suspend their activities and instructed their peoples to stay at home.

Despite the sinister expectations, the experts affirm that the depression may hold for a short period.

Economists at the Stanly Morgan Bank forecast the slump will run for short range. But they point out that economies of the developed nations will return to the previous levels of growth by the third quarter of the next year.

However, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has warned that the Coronavirus would leave about one billion at the age of work, without jobs in all parts of the planet.

The organization released a statement said that those who will not lose their jobs may suffer from reducing wages.

Restaurants, hotels, retail and various industries are the most vulnerable sectors in the world economy.

Those sectors were hurt excessively due to the deadly virus which was ranked by the World Health Organization on March 10, as pandemic.

The ILO urges the governments to offer immediate aids to the employees and companies to protect the workforce against either dismal or shut down.

The statement of the ILO expected that work hours in the world will be reduced by 6.7% throughout the second quarter of the current year.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing  director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned that the world economy stopped. She added that the current depression is worser than the other of 2008-2009.