World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced that the worldwide spread of the coronavirus COVID-2019 has become pandemic. WHO Director-General shares an unfavorable prognosis Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus.
As part of a briefing in Geneva, he said that an increase in the scale of the disease should occur in the coming weeks and even days. The total number of infected exceeded 118 thousand people in 114 countries, more than 4.2 thousand patients died.
“In the coming days and weeks, we expect that the number of infections, deaths and the number of affected countries will increase,” the WHO explained.
Give in panic and statements of the German Chancellor Angels Merkel. The politician claims that up to 70% of the population of Germany can become infected with a coronavirus. In total, about 1.5 thousand cases of infection were detected in Germany, two patients died.
“The virus is already here. As long as the population does not have immunity against it, there are no vaccinations, there is no therapy, the percentage of infected people will be high,” she said.
Directly the head of the German Ministry of Health Jens Span admitted that Berlin cannot stop the spread of the disease. Given this, the authorities of Germany may well introduce a state of emergency in the country. This threatens with the cancellation of such large events as a game exhibition Gamescom-2020 in Cologne.
However, while the organizers of the event are optimistic. Gamescom trailer was announced today with the announcement of the start of ticket sales. However the organizers E3 2023 just a week ago, they also did not plan to cancel the exhibition.
Note that the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin introduced a high-alert mode in the capital, and also announced a ban on holding mass events of more than five thousand people. It’s not yet known how long the restrictions will be in force, but this could potentially hit the exhibition. “IgroMir 2023”
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