The US Department of Defense has warned of social collapse in some of the world’s countries that are considered to be the most infected with the emerging corona virus.
“This situation may lead in some countries to social collapse,” the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US armed forces, General Mark Millie, said during a speech at the Pentagon today, Tuesday, with the Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper.
Millie added that, based on the experience of other countries affected by the disease, he believed that the crisis resulting from the pandemic of the emerging corona virus in the United States could take from 8 weeks to 3 months or until July.
Since January 2020, the world has been facing a deteriorating crisis caused by the outbreak of the new Corona virus infection “COVID-19”, which started spreading since December 2019 from Wuhan, China and led to huge losses in many sectors of the economy, especially transport, tourism, entertainment, and the collapse of global exchanges. The fall in energy markets has accelerated.
The World Health Organization has classified the emerging corona virus infection as a general epidemic, and has recorded so far in the world more than 395 thousand cases of this strain in about 160 countries, including 17,234 deaths and 103,732 cases of recovery.
To this day, China has managed to contain the epidemic of the Coronavirus, and has treated more than 72.7 thousand people out of 81,000 infected, while the western world has become a new focus of the pandemic.
Source: Agencies
