Austrian minister resigns due to exhaustion from fighting the epidemic, North Korea remains immune to Covid-19

According to the update at 6:00 a.m. on April 14 of the statistics page Worldometers, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to attack 219 countries and territories, infecting a total of 138 million people and taking the lives of 2.97 million others.

Brazil continues to be the deadliest epicenter, with about 3,400 more deaths, bringing the total number of deaths fromCovid-19in this country to 358,400 people. With 78,600 new infections, the Latin American country now has nearly 13.6 million people infected with Covid-19.

Meanwhile, India faces its most serious wave of Covid-19 infections, adding 185,200 new cases to its tally of 13.8 million positive cases. The death toll rose by more than 1,000 to over 172,100.

The epidemic situation in the US has also become complicated in the past 24 hours, recording more than 71,000 new infections to the total of 32 million Covid-19 patients, and more than 770 more deaths to the total of 577,100 unfortunate victims of Covid-19.

WHO warns about Covid-19

According to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Covid-19 infection situation has not shown signs of abating due to complacency and the failure to implement anti-epidemic measures consistently and synchronously.

Mr. Ghebreyesu emphasized that all countries want to open up society, open up the economy, restore travel and trade activities, but now is not the right time to fully open up because the number of deaths from the new coronavirus in many countries is still increasing, while the health system is overloaded under pressure from new infections.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over. However, we have many reasons to be optimistic. The decline in cases and deaths in the first two months of this year shows that the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its new variants are completely containable," said Mr. Ghebreyesus.

North Korea remains Covid-19 immune

The Kim Jong-un administration announced that no new coronavirus infections have been detected after testing tens of thousands of people in recent times.

North Korea remains free of the Covid-19 pandemic after testing more than 700 people in a week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported. The country tested 732 people from March 26 to April 1 and none tested positive for the coronavirus.

As of April 1, North Korea has tested a total of 23,121 people for Covid-19.

Austrian Health Minister Resigns Over Covid-19

Mr. Rudolf Anschober announced his resignation as Austrian Health Minister because his work in managing the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic over the past year has caused his health to decline.

"I have decided to resign. I am overworked and exhausted," Anschober, 60, said at a press conference in Vienna. He added that he suffers from high blood pressure.

The official described his 15 months in charge of the Covid-19 response as feeling like 15 years, not to mention he also faced many death threats because of the government's restrictive measures to prevent the pandemic.

Minister Anschober warned that Austria should not underestimate the pandemic and that the current situation remains very challenging.