An-Najah News - Agencies - The death toll from and deaths due to the Corona virus in the world continued to rise, while European countries continued to ease the lockdown measures, while US President Donald Trump stressed that he would end the mission of the task force he set up to confront Corona.

According to global health data, the number of infections reached 3 million and 706 thousand and 206, while the number of corona deaths around the world reached 256 thousand and 556, and the recovered ones are one million and 228 thousand and 106.

Home quarantine measures are still being eased in an increasing number of countries after the COVID-19 pandemic has decreased, although caution still remains.

Italian experts have warned that a second wave of Corona infection will definitely accompany the gradual reopening of Italy after the first imposed closure in Europe.

They call on experts to intensify efforts to identify potential new victims, monitor their symptoms and track their contacts.

But the World Health Organization, which fears the ease of prevention measures, stressed that reaching a vaccine or treatment is the only way to end the pandemic that has forced billions of people to stay home and paralyze the global economy and made tens of millions unemployed.

Around 100 vaccine projects are under construction around the world, ten of which are currently in the clinical testing phase, according to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

On the other hand, the White House announced that it intends to dissolve Task Force that manages the Corona virus crisis, in a final indication that the Trump administration no longer considers the COVID-19 pandemic a top daily priority.

The death toll from corona virus in Latin America has surpassed 15,000, more than half in Brazil alone.

The numbers showed that the total number of people infected with the 19-Covid pandemic in the continent is more than 282 thousand people, more than a third of them in Brazil alone (114,175 infections, 7,921 of them died).

It ranked second in terms of the number of victims of the pandemic Mexico (2,271 deaths out of 24,905 infections), followed by Ecuador (1,569 deaths out of 31,881 infections).

Several countries on the continent, including Ecuador, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, have extended closures to try to stop the spread of the virus.