According to the latest statistics of "Johns Hopkins University" United States of America (USA), issued today, the number of infections with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the world has exceeded 26 million and 31 thousand cases.
The deadly virus also has killed more than 863 thousand people in various continents across the globe.
The USA tops the list of countries most affected by the outbreak of the pandemic, as it has so far recorded more than 6.1 million injuries, while the number of deaths there has reached about 186 thousand cases.
Brazil has recorded about 4 million infections since the start of the epidemic, and the virus has claimed the lives of about 124,000 people.
In India, which ranks third in the list of worst-affected countries, there are more than 3.8 million injuries and more than 67,000 deaths.
Mexico ranks fourth in terms of the number of deaths, as it has so far recorded about 66 thousand deaths and more than 610 thousand infections, followed by Britain, where the Coronavirus has claimed about 42 thousand lives, and about 341 thousand cases have been recorded so far.
The death toll in Russia has exceeded one million infections, but the country has recorded a weak death rate compared to other countries, as the number of deaths due to the Corona virus has reached 17,365 since the start of the outbreak.
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 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 30s of the 20th century.
The report said 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. However, they pointed out that economies of the developed nations will return to the previous levels of growth by the third quarter of the next year.
On its part, 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 worst than the other of 2008-2009.
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