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The number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia worldwide exceeds 4 million. Real-time statistics from Worldometers show that as of 5:25 am on May 9, Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia worldwide has exceeded 4 million, reaching 4,000,685, and 275,423 deaths.
html Since May 1, the number of new confirmed cases in the world has remained high. According to WHO data, from May 1st to the present, the number of new confirmed cases in the world has only been below 80,000 in a single day.
As of May 8, the United States still has the country with the largest number of cumulative confirmed and cumulative deaths in the world. Real-time data from Johns Hopkins University shows that as of 14:32 Beijing time on May 9, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States has reached 1283,929, and the cumulative number of deaths has reached 77,180.
The "people around" of US President Trump have been diagnosed continuously recently. On May 7, the personal follower who was in charge of Trump's daily diet tested positive for the new coronavirus. On May 8, a staff member named "Katie" around Vice President Pence tested positive for the new coronavirus. On May 9, Trump's daughter Ivanka's personal assistant tested positive for the new coronavirus. After Trump's personal staff was diagnosed on the 7th, the coronavirus tests for insiders of the White House have changed from once a week to once a day.
recently released a number of data showing that the US economy has fallen into recession under the epidemic. In the first quarter of 2020, the U.S. GDP fell by 4.8% month-on-month, which is the first recession of the U.S. economy since the second quarter of 2014 and the largest decline since 2009.
On the 8th local time, data released by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that the number of non-farm employment in the United States decreased by 20.5 million in April, the largest decline since the record in 1939; the unemployment rate soared to 14.7%, the highest since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
In the past two months, the scale of US non-performing debt has risen by 161%, exceeding $500 billion. So far this year, the number of U.S. companies filing for bankruptcy has approached the same period in 2009.
Recently, the number of new confirmed cases is closely behind Russia, which ranks second in the world, and its economy is also "entering a difficult period" (in the language of Russian acting Prime Minister Belousov). As of May 8, the number of new confirmed cases in Russia has exceeded 10,000 for six consecutive days.
Russian media Newspaper reported on the 6th that Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said in an interview that Russia's GDP will decrease by 5% this year, which is consistent with the forecast given by the Russian Central Bank. Russian Minister of Economic Development Leshtnikov also previously said that Russia's economic activity level fell by 33% at the end of April compared with the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses and companies in various regions across the country were restricted, and job losses were 28%.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergency program, said on Friday local time, "At present, there are differences between Western Europe, which has experienced the first wave of pandemic and Eastern Europe, which is experiencing more diseases, especially the Russian Federation." After controlling the epidemic, many European countries, including Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom, have recently accelerated the pace of economic restart, but the serious impact of the previous epidemic on Europe has been reflected in economic data.
The European Commission recently predicted that the European economy will experience a "historic recession" in 2020. Forecasts show that the EU economy will shrink by 7.5% this year and the euro zone economy will shrink by 7.75%. Although the European Commission expects a rebound in the European economy in 2021, it is not enough to make up for the losses caused by this year's shrinkage.
Globally, the economic development of many countries with "severely hit areas" of the epidemic has been severely damaged. Brazil, which currently has a cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeding 140,000, is the largest economy in Latin America. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that it will face an economic contraction of 5.3% this year. International rating agency Moody's has also lowered its economic expectations for another major economy, India, saying that India's GDP will grow zero this year.
Domestic, the number of existing confirmed cases and the number of existing suspected cases continue to decline. As of 24:00 on May 8, there were 208 confirmed cases nationwide, setting a new low since January 20. In addition, the number of new confirmed cases nationwide also remained at a low level, with more than 2 new cases since May.
As of May 9, 23 provinces across the country have lowered the emergency response level to level three.On May 8, the State Council also issued guiding opinions, saying that under the premise of implementing prevention and control measures, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and other living places will be fully opened; parks, tourist attractions, sports venues, indoor venues such as libraries, museums, and art galleries, as well as closed entertainment and leisure places such as cinemas and amusement halls, and various necessary conferences and exhibition activities can be held.
The just-passed May Day holiday, the domestic consumer market accelerated to recover. During the May Day period, the national online retail sales of physical goods increased by 36.3% year-on-year, and the express delivery investment volume exceeded 1 billion pieces, an increase of about 40% year-on-year.
html From May 1 to 5, the average daily sales of key retail enterprises across the country increased by 32.1% compared with the Qingming Festival. The national catering and accommodation industries consumption recovery index also increased by 18.8 and 15 percentage points respectively compared with the Qingming Festival, and the consumption scale has recovered to about 70% of the same period last year. When the cumulative number of confirmed cases inworldwide exceeded 4 million, the competition between humans and the new coronavirus is still continuing. Recently, a research report released by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States stated that the coronavirus that appeared in China four months ago had mutated. The mutant strain began to spread in Europe in early February, and then spread to the United States, Canada and other regions, until the end of March, became the main strain of infection cases worldwide.
At present, China, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries are accelerating the development of new crown vaccines, and many vaccines have entered the clinical trial stage. On May 6, Chinese scientists were the first to publish animal experiment results of the new coronavirus vaccine in the top international academic journal Science. The results showed that the inactivated new coronavirus vaccine was safe and effective in the rhesus monkey model.
