WHO believes that the United States can become the largest focus of infection

The United States may be the largest focus of the spread of coronavirus pandemic. This forecast has become one of the "last arguments" in favor of the transfer of the Olympic Games in Tokyo for the next year.

According to the World Health Organization, 85 percent of new cases of infection over the past day falls on Europe and the United States - moreover, 40 percent of this amount - the United States "give". The official representative of the WHO Margaret Harris, answering the question of a journalist in Geneva, said: the spread of infection in the United States has significantly accelerated, so there is a potential probability that the United States will become the largest focus of infection.

In New York-25,665 infected, only in the last day 4790 have increased. In California-2220 cases of infection, over the past day 87 have been added. The epidemic has been touched by nine states to date. In some of them, local authorities complain about the lack of coordinating efforts from the federal authorities. Thus, as Reuters notes with reference to local officials, they have to enter into a competition for obtaining the necessary support.

The growth of danger in the United States occurs simultaneously with a gradual improvement in the situation in China. So, the authorities of the Chinese province of Hube, where in December 2019 a new coronavirus was first identified, announced that they were preparing to remove restrictions on the movement of people. Official sources of this province say that the epidemic begins to decline.

Today, the total number of infected in the world can cross the mark of 400,000. The number of deaths in 196 and territories exceeded 17,250, the recovered - 103,700.