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In total, 50,010,413 cases have been counted, of which 1,251,981 have ended in the death of the sick person. Europe, with 12.6 million confirmed cases (more than 305,000 deaths), is the region of the world with the most infections, ahead of Latin America and the Caribbean (11.6 million cases, 411,000 deaths).
Last week, out of 3.9 million new cases registered in the world, more than half (2.1 million) were detected in the European region. The European countries with the most cases in the last seven days were France (381,000), Italy (223,000), the United Kingdom (160,000), Poland (159,000) and Spain (143,000).
The pandemic also causes record numbers in the United States. On Saturday, more than 122,000 COVID-19 infections were registered, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 991 people died of the virus in the country most affected by this disease on the planet.
The main world power exceeded 237,000 deaths and 9.8 million cases of coronavirus.
Faced with this situation, President-elect Joe Biden said Saturday that will establish from Monday “a group of leading scientists and experts as advisers” to work “on a plan that will take effect on January 20, 2021”, the day of the presidential inauguration.
Your plan would include an order to wear face masks nationwide and to expand free COVID-19 diagnostic tests, boosting US production of medical equipment and making any future vaccine “free for all, whether they have health insurance or not.”
After accusing Trump of having disparaged his own health experts, Biden has assured that he would remain in the White House team against the coronavirus respected immunologist Anthony Fauci.
Further, would cancel the process to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), which Trump started in July.
Europe in crisis due to coronavirus
Since the beginning of October, the number of new daily infections due to coronavirus in Portugal has increased from 2,000 to 6,000.
To stop this growth, Starting Monday, a curfew will begin that will be applied in the 121 municipalities Subject since Wednesday to a new confinement and where around 70% of the Portuguese live, announced the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa.
The night curfew, as well as the mandatory use of outdoor masks and the prohibition of parties, They will also start to apply from Monday in Romania, which is approaching the threshold of 10,000 new daily cases.
In Europe, the new restrictions in the face of the second wave of the pandemic provoke resistance in part of the population.
This Sunday, ministers and other German political leaders denounced the riots that occurred the day before in Leipzig (east), that resulted in 31 arrests during a demonstration of more than 20,000 opponents to measures to fight COVID-19.
“Nothing can justify what we saw yesterday [sábado] in Leipzig“Said the Minister of Justice, Christine Lambrecht, on Twitter. “The contempt for science, the hate speech from the extreme right that we have seen is appalling,” he added.
In Madrid Hundreds of anti-vaccine activists demonstrated on Saturday against the “dictatorship” of the coronavirus and the restrictions imposed by the authorities to try to stop the pandemic.
This weekend new measures came into force in Poland and Greece.
The English thus lived a particular “Remembrance Sunday” (Sunday of Remembrance), since only British politicians and members of the royal family were able to pay tribute to the soldiers killed in the world wars and later, in a more minimalist ceremony.
In Switzerland, the army mobilized reservists on Sunday to try to stem the second wave of covid-19.
“It is a new effort that is required of them,” launched Swiss Lieutenant Colonel Raul Barca along with a hundred soldiers, all masked, in front of the hangar on the Moudon parade ground, in the canton of Vaud (west).
Greece began its second lockdown on Saturday, a measure that has already been taken in other countries such as France, England, Ireland and part of Italy.
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