24-hour global anti-epidemic campaign, Tokyo Olympic Games, capital circle, 1 capital, 3 counties, empty competition, the third wave of epidemic in Africa accelerated the spread.
WHO: There are more than 184.82 million confirmed cases in COVID-19.
According to the latest real-time statistics of WHO, as of 18: 18 Central European Summer Time on July 8th (0: 18 Beijing time on July 9th), there were 184,820,132 confirmed cases in COVID-19 and 4,002,209 cumulative deaths. On the 8th, there were 484,439 confirmed cases and 9,391 deaths in COVID-19.
UN Secretary-General: To achieve global recovery, everyone must be vaccinated.
On the evening of July 7, local time, the global death toll from the COVID-19 epidemic exceeded 4 million. UN Secretary-General Guterres issued a statement on this:
If Covid-19 is allowed to spread like wildfire, millions of people will still be threatened. The more the virus spreads, the more variants appear. These variants are easier to spread, more deadly and more likely to weaken the effectiveness of existing vaccines.
In order to bridge the gap in vaccine distribution, efforts must be made to make the largest global public health plan in history.
To achieve global recovery, the whole world must be vaccinated. The painful lesson of 4 million deaths urges us to take urgent action to eliminate the epidemic for all people everywhere.
WHO: The peak of the accelerated spread of the third COVID-19 epidemic in Africa has not yet arrived.
On July 8, local time, the WHO Regional Office for Africa held an online press conference. Motti, regional director of WHO for Africa, said that there have been nearly 5.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa, with over 146,000 deaths. In the past week, there were 251,000 confirmed cases in Africa, an increase of 20% over the previous week and 12% over the peak of the second epidemic in January. The number of new cases showed an upward trend for seven consecutive weeks.
Motti believes: "For Africa, the worst has not yet arrived, and the third epidemic is continuing to spread at an accelerated pace. It will take several weeks to end the sharp increase in the number of new cases."
Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Delta strains spread rapidly throughout the United States.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said at the White House briefing on July 8, local time that at this stage, the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States presents some new features: in areas with low vaccination rate, the infection rate and hospitalization rate have increased; Small-scale outbreaks have occurred in collective camps and community activities; At the same time, the Delta strain spread rapidly throughout the United States.
Delta, a mutant strain from COVID-19, became the most important strain in Germany for the first time.
According to the latest assessment of robert koch Institute, a German disease control agency, on July 8th, during June 21st to 27th, the proportion of confirmed cases in COVID-19, Germany infected with Delta strain reached 59% for the first time, compared with 37% in the previous week.
Although the vaccination rate in COVID-19 is increasing, experts are still worried about the current situation of epidemic prevention and control, and warn that with the rapid spread of Delta strain, the epidemic situation may be reversed again. Experts call for tightening epidemic prevention measures again if the number of infected people soars again.
The number of newly diagnosed cases in Myanmar reached a new high in a single day, and many confirmed patients died in the streets.
According to the news released by the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar on the evening of July 8th, 4,132 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were found on that day, which set a new high for newly confirmed cases in a single day since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Myanmar.
At present, a large number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have brought great pressure to the medical system, among which hospitals in Mandalay have reached the admission limit, and a large number of newly confirmed cases cannot enter the isolation treatment area. In Yangon, however, many patients diagnosed in COVID-19 died in the street one after another.
During the Tokyo Olympic Games, 1 capital and 3 counties in the metropolitan area will hold competitions in the open field.
Tamayo Marukawa, the Japanese Olympic Minister, revealed after the five-party talks and the liaison agreement meeting with relevant regions on the evening of July 8 that the Tokyo Olympic Games, which opened on the 23rd, will be held in the Olympic venues in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama and other three counties in the capital circle.
On the other hand, the competition venues in Miyagi, where football is held, Fukushima, where baseball and softball are held, and Shizuoka, where cycling events are held, will maintain the current upper limit of the number of spectators, that is, "50% of the number of people can be accommodated and no more than 10,000 people".
Earlier in the day, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide declared a state of emergency for epidemic prevention in Tokyo for the fourth time.
Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, Myanmar announced that all schools would be suspended for two weeks.
On the evening of July 8, local time, the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar announced that all schools in Myanmar would be closed for two weeks from July 9 due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 epidemic and the large increase of patients infected with Delta mutant strain, and the tentative suspension time would end on July 23.
The epidemic situation in COVID-19, Thailand is getting worse. The Ministry of Health suggested that the government implement stricter epidemic prevention measures.
A spokesman for the COVID-19 Epidemic Management Center of the Thai government said on the 8th local time that the number of newly confirmed cases and deaths in Thailand is rising day by day, and many residential communities have become epidemic-prone areas. In order to curb the further spread of the epidemic, the Ministry of Health proposed to implement stricter epidemic prevention measures, including restricting people’s cross-government travel, implementing home office, closing more business premises, and adjusting the business hours of public transport systems. These proposals will be submitted to the conference of the Center for Disease Control on the 9th, and can only be implemented after being approved by the Cabinet.
The Angolan government announced the extension of the state of public disaster, and some epidemic prevention measures were maintained.
In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, Angolan Minister of State and Director of the People’s Government De Almeida announced the extension of the state of public disaster in his country on July 7, local time, and also announced the updated anti-epidemic measures:
Luanda province will maintain the epidemic prevention and closure, and the labor force in public and private service sectors will increase from 50% to 75%.
Open restaurants and similar business places from 6 am to 10 pm on weekends, and maintain a 50% occupancy rate.
Continue to ban festivals and increase the number of people attending funerals to 20.
The curfew is from 11pm to 5am the next day.