The number of victims of the Corona pandemic around the world continues to rise steadily, as the death toll exceeded 970,000, while about 32 million injuries have been recorded so far.
The United States is the country most affected by the outbreak of the Coronavirus, as the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people, while 6.9 million infections have been recorded so far.
The latest figures and statistics from Johns Hopkins University, USA, showed, today, Wednesday, that the pandemic has killed more than 138,000 people in Brazil, which ranks third in the number of infections, with 4.6 million injuries recorded since the start of the outbreak.
In India, which ranks third in terms of the number of deaths, more than 90,000 deaths and more than 5.6 million injuries have been recorded.
In Mexico, the Coronavirus has claimed more than 74,000 lives so far, while the death toll has risen to more than 705,000.
Britain comes in fifth place, with 42,000 deaths, and the number of people infected with the virus exceeded 406,000.
Italy, which ranks sixth in terms of the number of deaths, has recorded about 36,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic, while the number of infections exceeded 300,000.
Coronavirus has claimed the lives of about 31 thousand people in France, and the number of infections has exceeded 507 thousand so far, followed by Spain, where the death toll rose to about 31 thousand cases, and more than 680 thousand cases were recorded.
In the Middle East, Iran is the country most affected by the outbreak of the pandemic, with about 25,000 deaths and 430,000 infections.
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 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 30s of the 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 Stanley 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.
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